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Post by the light works on Jan 3, 2014 15:30:46 GMT
If you have a makeup then you can go one better. A tube of mascara can give you some rather convincing moles in less than 10 seconds. If you use surgical tape to tape a few hairs from your head to your face & then use the mascara to cover the tape you can make realistic 'hairy moles'. (You have to trim the hair sticking out from the mascara of course, but it works. (Oh the weird stuff you learn when you take drama as an elective in high school!) but they have already tested whether a person can convincingly disguise themselves as another person. |
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Post by OziRiS on Jan 4, 2014 1:46:03 GMT
but they have already tested whether a person can convincingly disguise themselves as another person. Apart from the Mission Impossible Mask show, when did they do that? |
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 4, 2014 9:55:23 GMT
A Young lady, a rather PRETTY young lady, approached me at one school event... she knew my name, my Kids, my Wife, she started chatting as if she knew me well.....
My wife looked at me with one of Those looks.....
The penny drops...
Its the receptionist from the local Doctors.
"I didnt recognise you out of Uniform".
For me, case proven on that score?...
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Post by wvengineer on Jan 8, 2014 1:53:04 GMT
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Post by the light works on Jan 8, 2014 2:14:55 GMT
still a Crown Vic. here, our unmarked cop cars include a couple chargers, an explorer, and a Focus. all with standard factory wheels, and factory color paint jobs. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 8, 2014 7:44:36 GMT
To add to that, "Dressing up" cars, we have a phrase "Norsa".
Its a combination of Vauxhall Nova and Corsa, which seem to have almost identical interchangeable parts, in which if you can dream it, they can build it.
The vehicles are cheep, cheep on the insurance, cheep to run, but all look as though they are supposed to be "doing 100 stood still", as the phrase goes....
If you see one, you know they will be trouble.
Mostly they have 1.1 to maybe 1.6 engines....
Mine has a little more than that.
I get them trying to race me at the lights?...
I do the 0-to-posted speed limit ASAP then just cruise.... annoys the hell outa them.
I still get a wired sense of joy when one tries to burn off the works truck, as Solo, those engines on wheels can out perform anything up to a purpose built sports car, up to 40mph that is....
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Post by craighudson on Jan 8, 2014 8:29:13 GMT
Can I say urban legend on this one? |
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 8, 2014 8:47:18 GMT
Can I say way to go to make friends and influence people?...
Go alienate you entire church by embarrassing the whole congregation?...
That should be in How Stupid van you be thread?...
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Post by OziRiS on Jan 8, 2014 13:45:51 GMT
Can I say way to go to make friends and influence people?... Go alienate you entire church by embarrassing the whole congregation?... That should be in How Stupid van you be thread?... Couldn't disagree more. The right thing to do is often not the popular thing to do, but it needs to be done. If anyone in that story (if there's any truth to it) deserves to be in the "How Stupid can you be?" thread, it's the thousands of people who go to every sermon but never hear a thing that's being said. The sanctemonious hypocrites who talk a good talk, but obviously haven't understood the core message of the religion they claim to profess to. If there truly is such a thing as Heaven and the way to get in when you die is to follow the word of Jesus, then going to church and claiming to be a Christian is a complete waste of time for those types of people. Every one of those idiots can go directly to Room 101 and take every so-called Christian priest who ever preached "an eye for an eye" or anything else out of the Old Testament as "divine truth" with them, since they clearly didn't get the message either. |
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Post by the light works on Jan 8, 2014 14:38:04 GMT
To add to that, "Dressing up" cars, we have a phrase "Norsa". Its a combination of Vauxhall Nova and Corsa, which seem to have almost identical interchangeable parts, in which if you can dream it, they can build it. The vehicles are cheep, cheep on the insurance, cheep to run, but all look as though they are supposed to be "doing 100 stood still", as the phrase goes.... If you see one, you know they will be trouble. Mostly they have 1.1 to maybe 1.6 engines.... Mine has a little more than that. I get them trying to race me at the lights?... I do the 0-to-posted speed limit ASAP then just cruise.... annoys the hell outa them. I still get a wired sense of joy when one tries to burn off the works truck, as Solo, those engines on wheels can out perform anything up to a purpose built sports car, up to 40mph that is.... our great story was when my dad's last pickup was still pretty new. he had a kid in a camaro, who was very impressed with himself, to the point that he managed to trigger my dad's "embarrass the kid" response. so on somewhere between a quarter and a half mile before the lanes merged, the kid only just barely managed to pull ahead of my dad, in his pickup. with around 3/4 ton of inventory in the back. towing a trailer. that had been a car hauler. that had to have stronger wheels put on because the loads he carried in it were breaking the wheels it had had on it when it was a car hauler. way to go, kid, you just beat a truck that weighs 3-4 times what your car weighs... |
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Post by ironhold on Jan 8, 2014 17:03:18 GMT
Can I say urban legend on this one? Actually, the experiment's been tried three different times by ministers of congregations in different states; the results have been depressingly similar. |
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Post by User Unavailable on Jan 8, 2014 19:04:07 GMT
At my old job, we all wore the same uniform and hair nets.
Out in town, in street clothes, I often didn't recognize, right away, many of the women, because most of them would put on their hair nets and leave them on the entire shift, not taking them off in the break room. They would put them on and take them off in the women's locker room and so I would never see them without their hairnets.
So out in town, if I bumped into them, I often didn't recognize them without the hairnets and in civilian clothes unless they were the few women with whom I worked more closely with.
The men at work, we all removed our hairnets at break times and I saw them in the locker rooms without their hairnets and with their civilian clothes and caps on, so I always recognized them out in town. (Unless they were a new hire that I had not worked with or around much)
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Post by wvengineer on Jan 8, 2014 22:39:00 GMT
To go off of TLW's story about the unmarked cop car, in a way many police forces go overboard trying to make unmarked cars blend in to such an extent that they stand out like a sore thumb. What is the most common undercover car? The must nondescript Ford Crown Victoria possible. No pin striping, black steel wheels, as plan as possible. They go to such a extent to make it nondescript that they stand out as cop cars. still a Crown Vic. here, our unmarked cop cars include a couple chargers, an explorer, and a Focus. all with standard factory wheels, and factory color paint jobs. I think it was Hagerstown, MD where I noticed a Crown Vic that I passed over until I saw the lights behind the grill. It actually looked like a normal car with dealer pin striping and alloy rims. One of the best undercover cars I have seen for a while. Although crown any Crown Vic is usually a cop these days. They haven't made civilian versions for so long that the only ones I see on the road are cops, with the rare case of a former cop car that someone bought. The local cops are buying a mix of Challengers and Taurus's for patrol cars and Explorers for special applications like investigators, K-9, or offroad patrol. |
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Post by the light works on Jan 9, 2014 4:25:20 GMT
still a Crown Vic. here, our unmarked cop cars include a couple chargers, an explorer, and a Focus. all with standard factory wheels, and factory color paint jobs. I think it was Hagerstown, MD where I noticed a Crown Vic that I passed over until I saw the lights behind the grill. It actually looked like a normal car with dealer pin striping and alloy rims. One of the best undercover cars I have seen for a while. Although crown any Crown Vic is usually a cop these days. They haven't made civilian versions for so long that the only ones I see on the road are cops, with the rare case of a former cop car that someone bought. The local cops are buying a mix of Challengers and Taurus's for patrol cars and Explorers for special applications like investigators, K-9, or offroad patrol. my local department has one taurus - and the whole staff fights to determine who gets stuck driving it. the guy I asked about it said he wouldn't even stuff a criminal he DIDN'T like in the back seat. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 9, 2014 10:35:41 GMT
Religion, as a preacher you must be the shepherd.
A good shepherd does not attack the flock?.....
Now I must resign from this part of the discussion, to prevent heated religion.
I say he did wrong, I can see no right, and two wrongs do not make a right.
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 9, 2014 10:48:45 GMT
Thinking on "Clothes", and cars, I have always driven what I presume you Americans would call "sleepers"...
(I been a- watching Fast-and-Loud Grease Monkeys and the like?..)
Anyway, its the thing of sticking an over-performing engine in a standard body...
An Original Mini with a two litre engine, half a ton vehicle that will do 150 mph.
A Ford Light 1-ton van that originally had a 1800 diesel that now has a three litre fuel injection petrol, that does 0-60 in a little under what is good for it, and can cruise at 130 all day.
A Lada with rally spec engineering and engine that can break 120 where it was designed to barely reach 90, that can also do that kind of speeds up hills on WRC type loose surface, say your Pikes Peak hill climb.
A Vauxhaul Cavalier Mk1 originally 1600 engine upgraded to fuel injection 2 litre that scared several buckets of whats good for the roses outa anyone who tried to race it, as it was built for the track, but was road legal.
"Wolf in sheep's clothing"...
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Post by OziRiS on Jan 9, 2014 12:57:52 GMT
Religion, as a preacher you must be the shepherd. A good shepherd does not attack the flock?..... Now I must resign from this part of the discussion, to prevent heated religion. I say he did wrong, I can see no right, and two wrongs do not make a right. Good thing it doesn't have to be about religion then. We can continue this from a leadership perspective. As a leader you must be a shepherd. A good shepherd leads the flock where it needs to go, regardless of where it wants to go. You're a dad. Have you always told you kids what they wanted to hear, or have you (like me) told them what they needed to hear? Which makes for a better parent? |
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Post by the light works on Jan 9, 2014 14:37:18 GMT
Religion, as a preacher you must be the shepherd. A good shepherd does not attack the flock?..... Now I must resign from this part of the discussion, to prevent heated religion. I say he did wrong, I can see no right, and two wrongs do not make a right. Good thing it doesn't have to be about religion then. We can continue this from a leadership perspective. As a leader you must be a shepherd. A good shepherd leads the flock where it needs to go, regardless of where it wants to go. You're a dad. Have you always told you kids what they wanted to hear, or have you (like me) told them what they needed to hear? Which makes for a better parent? I will simply say that there comes a time when discipline is necessary. whether the preacher(s) in question did it right is outside my knowledge, because I do not know their flocks. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jan 10, 2014 9:48:44 GMT
When they Hurt, I tell them what they want to hear, that everything will be all right.
I dont always tell them what they need to hear.
That is, until I can do it in a way that they will understand....
For instance, if say you had a child that was overweight, they need to be told so.
Do you do that in front of all their friends by shouting "Your FAT!"?....
Or do you calmly discuss why they dont fit their clothes any more, and why Other people have been shouting rude comments at them?...
Knowing what to say and when to say it, that is what makes the better parent.?... I think that is in agreement?....
My Dad always walked alongside me.
Never in front, never behind, but side by side.
We may occasionally take a different path, but sooner or later, we would be on the same path again, and side by side...
Its a respect thing.
We had the ability to tell each other things before they became a problem.
One sign on my Dads workshop was "Elephant Free Zone"
You had to know the secret....and that is a joke in its self...
The not-so-secret was that there was NEVER "An elephant in the room" that everyone was ignoring....
Both my Dad and Me HATED that idea... we could never understand how people could live like that?...
As part of my Dads will, that sign is now in my workshop.
In his memory, its family tradition, if any of us need "a quiet chat", its done under that sign....
Its the one place one of us can talk to another without anyone else interfering.....
I have always told my kids the truth.
I have always given good reason for any decision I make that involves them.
I have never used "Because I said so"
I have taken all the Good my Dad did and let my Kids thrive on it.
They agree with things my Dad did, and that is the main reason we miss him, he lives on through us, our straight talking allows us to exist in honesty with temperance.
Knowing you have to say "Something" is all well and good, but find the right way to say it, say it in a way that doesnt loose its meaning, but doesnt shatter dreams.
And most of all,
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Post by the light works on Jan 10, 2014 14:57:28 GMT
My dad had a motto: "Elephants don't climb trees" he used it whenever anyone asked a question that they were fully capable of answering on their own.
the store motto was "If you didn't buy it here, why is it our problem?"
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