Another almost-miss. I visited a friend in Germany, and the final leg home was from “Dusseldorf Weser” airport, which I naïvely assumed was like “London Heathrow”, and just the full name of Dusseldorf airport where I’d flown in.
Lucky, I got there 3h in advance, and when I couldn’t find the Ryan Air (yep!) counter, information filled me in. …One mad taxi rush across the city, then a bus I would’ve missed if it wasn’t late, and I got to this little airport way out of town 5min before the gate closed!
10 mins later, a group of guys got on the plane. They’d had a beer waiting for the Ryan Air counter to show up at Dusseldorf, and realised too late - got a taxi all the way to Weser arriving 5 min after gate closing. Luckily they were allowed to board anyway!
Someone once told me “if you’ve never missed a flight, you’re spending too much time in airports”. I think about that a lot in a lot of other contexts - sometimes being too safe comes with more of a cost than the risk!
I think this is terrible advice for most people. You only need to spend like an hour in the airport to avoid missing a flight. Most people don’t fly often enough to get much actual gain from pushing this boundary. The only person I knew who would push the envelope like this was someone who flew every week for work. That makes sense to me, because you’re saving two hours every week for years. If you’re only flying a few times a year just pack a book and ensure you make your flight on time.
I’ve been on like six flights in my life. I am absolutely not spending too much time in airports by not missing a flight. What a fucking out of touch thing to say.
Avoid being out in the midday sun. If you do, try to walk in the shade as much as possible.
If your windows have external shades close them down when the sun is hitting that side of the house/appartment so that the heating up of objects from the sunlight happens outside not inside.
Wear shorts/skirts and loose clothes of thin textites that don’t retain much heat (such as cotton).
If you’re going to be out for long periods, bring water, ideally cold water.
Sure, if you have AC or, even better, a swiming pool, it’s a lot easier to keep cool, but these suggestions will work even for those who can’t afford those things.
I recommend getting a metal water bottle and carrying that around when you’re sightseeing or any activity that keeps you outside in the sun for long.
Also I personally never noticed any extra sweating when drinking cold water versus ambient temperature water, and I live in Portugal were we regularly get 40C or more in August. Generally, if it’s hot enough you’ll sweat more simply from the heat (as sweating is a natural cooling mechanism) even if all you drink is plain tap water. Sure, if you don’t drink water you’ll sweat less, as you’re getting dehydrated so the body will cut down on that.
Were did you learn that specific piece of information about cold water making people sweat more?
I ordered a Noctua CPU cooler from Amazon a few years ago. It was sold to me as new, and it definitely looked new, but when I opened the package to the it out and install it, it was missing several components. It had obviously been opened and either used or at least taken apart, then put back in the packaging.
I didn’t feel scammed necessarily, but it was extremely annoying. I had no trouble with Amazon taking it back and sending me a new one. Honestly the only reason I think you’d have trouble is if your account has a history of questionable or large returns.
On Amazon's website. Directly below the "Add to Cart" and "Buy it Now" buttons it tells you exactly who is selling it and who is shipping it. I'm not sure where the difficulty lies in checking?
I apologize, my previous direction must have not been clear.
Directly below the "Buy it Now" button on every item sold on Amazon's website.
Payment: Secure transaction
Ships from: Amazon.com Sold by: Amazon.com
Returns: Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
Going directly to "Amazon Renewed" portion of the site and I snag a pair of Beats headphones. Directly under "Buy it Now" it says:
Payment: Secure transaction
Ships from: Amazon Sold by: MallStop
Returns: Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 90 days of receipt
Ok so Nestle for child murder, Bayer for AIDs blood, Union Carbide for Bhopal disaster and its parent Dow Chemical for Agent Orange (Monsanto too).
IBM for helping the Nazis with concentration camps and Degesch for Zyclon B. United Fruit Company and Dutch & British East India Companies for colonization, also everyone that was shipping rubber out of the Belgian Congo.
Everyone who makes landmines, cluster bombs, etc.
I think when this question is asked in 100 years Palantir is going to feature.
In the early days of smartwatches I ordered one from the manufacturer directly. The price tag and its features all sounded too good to be true, and it was. I don’t even remember their name but I was so hyped that I didn’t even do basic research.
I waited and waited and after a few weeks I did a search online. Turns out the whole thing was a scam, I found tons of blog posts about people either not receiving theirs or getting something that barely worked.
It was too late to do anything about it but I learned my lesson the hard way.
Yeah, early-ish days of ecigs (started vaping fully in 2012, so I’m guessing this was around '13/'14), ordered a mod off of facebook, wired the money via WU, the end. And yes, that seems risky, but that was also how things were done, few of the advanced mods were made by companies (those only made lame stuff that looks closer to the teenager ecigs they now sell at the supermarket), instead you had people tinkering in their basements ;)
Hungover after my wedding. We took too long at the hotel breakfast and had to drive about an hour to get to the airport.
Tried to buy a new ticket at the airport for my honeymoon and the agent laughed at me. They don’t sell tickets at the airport… So I had to stand in front of them, buy a ticket on my phone, then approach the agent. Who knew?
Maybe not exactly the poster, but the preview. It was awesome, quick and funny.
But then the movie was long, slow and not very funny aside the jokes that were already in the preview. But we had seen those often enough already. Disappointed
I once thought “Amazon refurbished” was a program by Amazon…
Turns out they just throw that label on random companies that refurbished on their own.
Bought a cellphone from one, they sent me the wrong phone model, and I paid for unlocked and they sent me one locked to a different carrier, then said that carrier was the most popular (it’s not) and they assumed it was what I wanted.
When I was complaining about that, they told me all I had to do was put it in a UPS drop box, explicitly told me I didn’t have to go to a store.
According to them, they never got the return.
I talked to Amazon, and their customer service just flat out lied and told me they could see the return was in transit.
Weeks later Amazon tried to charge me for the phone, and I had to do a charge back. Because apparently following the sellers instructions to put it in a drop off, meant I couldn’t prove I mailed it.
I have no idea if I was sent the wrong phone intentionally as a scam where they were always going to say they didn’t get the return, but it definitely felt like it by the end of it
Foreigner flying out of Chicago, and no one explained that the pass I was given at check in wasn’t my boarding pass. My flight is almost boarded before I realised that a seat number wasn’t printed on the pass. I went to the counter to find out what I’m supposed to do, and the flight had been overbooked.
Neither of these are normal where I’m from. You get the boarding pass with your seat when you check in, and flights are never deliberately overbooked.
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