The "Quick-Question" Thread- please see guidelines in 1st post

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Table 5

My upstairs neighbors bathroom pipe burst, and water leaked down the wall into our bathroom....mainly behind the wall-tile in the shower. Part of the ceiling was leaking too, and the grout itself shows wet stains in certain parts. What kind of issues should I be concerned about? Is that something that can turn into mold, or would it dry out over time?
It will be their responsibility to fix.

If your are in a condo, then it is the condo's to fix.

[gargamel]

Is there any explanation for why parts of my phone's screen (an iPhone 4s, but I doubt that's important because my old iPhone never did this) get pixelated every time I fly? There are barely perceptible lines of blue and green down either side of the phone, and a pixelated area in the top left corner and a pixelated area in the lower right corner that grow throughout the flight and become black splotches as the pixels fill in. They slowly recede for a few days after the flight until they go away completely. It's happened on every flight that I've been on for the last 6 months (about a dozen).

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by Titan

You sure you didn't run over a cat when you moved here? Man you seem to be jinxed. Good luck with this new adventure.

Haha, you know this kind of crap happens so often to me, I don't even consider it weird. If there's a way for something to go wrong, it will. I kind of get the feeling Calgary wants me to go back to where I came from.

Oh, and btw, speaking of cats, both of ours died within 2 months of each other from pretty sudden and non-related medical causes last year.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Haha, you know this kind of crap happens so often to me, I don't even consider it weird. If there's a way for something to go wrong, it will. I kind of get the feeling Calgary wants me to go back to where I came from.

Oh, and btw, speaking of cats, both of ours died within 2 months of each other from pretty sudden and non-related medical causes last year.

Have you involved the Condo Board?

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Have you involved the Condo Board?

It's still shaking out (only happened last night so they are still in the process of fixing things upstairs) and the super is aware. I guess I'm just curious what types of problems can arise with these types of scenarios so I know what to keep an eye out for.

[DownhillGoat]

Put a lot of potato peels down and try to dispose them all in one shot and that'll plug it off every time.

[sun]

Originally Posted by fotze

How the fack did something get past the garburator and instantly completely block the sink? Anyone know how the garburator works? Does it let big things past it?

Don't put starch (potatoes), coffee grounds, rice, pasta, stringy vegetables, grease (obviously), etc down there or it'll plug eventually.

[Circa89]

Watching BT, they say that the ivor strong bridge has traffic flowing at 19 Kph. How do they know this?

Hacking gps? Satellite imagery? Is there a hidden radar gun?

[FlamingLonghorn]

So I am going on a cruise to Jamaica in a couple weeks, my girlfriends grandparents live in Jamaica and want us to bring some breast cancer meds to the Grandmother. Every thing is legit in terms of having a prescription in the grandmother's name, etc... However, is it illegal for us to have someone else's meds on us travelling out of the country (US)?

[fredr123]

If a woman has all platinum rings (wedding ring, engagement ring) and her significant other bought an anniversary ring that wasn't platinum (say, white gold), how tacky would that look and how pissed would the woman be?

Asking for a friend.

[psyang]

Originally Posted by Circa89

Watching BT, they say that the ivor strong bridge has traffic flowing at 19 Kph. How do they know this?

Hacking gps? Satellite imagery? Is there a hidden radar gun?

Helicopter and a stopwatch?

[AMG_G]

Originally Posted by fredr123

If a woman has all platinum rings (wedding ring, engagement ring) and her significant other bought an anniversary ring that wasn't platinum (say, white gold), how tacky would that look and how pissed would the woman be?

Asking for a friend.

White gold turns yellow over time so she will be pissed off indefinately at how cheap her husband is.

[MoneyGuy]

If I want to be absolutely certain that my iPad uses NO cell data do I have to turn off cellular data, or can I leave data on knowing that it will always automatically go to wifi first and ONLY go to cell data if there is no wifi?

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

If I want to be absolutely certain that my iPad uses NO cell data do I have to turn off cellular data, or can I leave data on knowing that it will always automatically go to wifi first and ONLY go to cell data if there is no wifi?

Only way to be certain is to turn cellular data off

[Locke]

Originally Posted by fredr123

If a woman has all platinum rings (wedding ring, engagement ring) and her significant other bought an anniversary ring that wasn't platinum (say, white gold), how tacky would that look and how pissed would the woman be?

Asking for a friend.

Just say that he was trying to 'switch things up a bit.'

"Dont you find all of that Platinum to be getting a little old?"

Whats going on? He had all this money before but things are now getting tight?

[Locke]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

If I want to be absolutely certain that my iPad uses NO cell data do I have to turn off cellular data, or can I leave data on knowing that it will always automatically go to wifi first and ONLY go to cell data if there is no wifi?

I'm interested in this as well. I've become an iphone zombie and now I'm going to Mexico for a week, what do I do with this phone? Aside from tossing it into the ocean, but thats a definite 'Plan B.'

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Locke

Just say that he was trying to 'switch things up a bit.'

"Dont you find all of that Platinum to be getting a little old?"

Whats going on? He had all this money before but things are now getting tight?

Isn't platinum cheaper than gold at the moment? At least as a commodity.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Isn't platinum cheaper than gold at the moment? At least as a commodity.

Like hell I'd know that.

[fredr123]

Originally Posted by Locke

Just say that he was trying to 'switch things up a bit.'

"Dont you find all of that Platinum to be getting a little old?"

Whats going on? He had all this money before but things are now getting tight?

"Honey, I don't want you to injure your wrist with all that platinum on your hand so I thought you should switch to a lighter precious metal."

I suspect he initially blew a big wad of dough to impress the lady and win her hand. Now the reality of mortgage payments, car payments, multiple kids, and all the other expenses that follow when you settle down and become a responsible adult knocks jewellery purchases down a few pegs in the ol' priorities department.

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by Locke

I'm interested in this as well. I've become an iphone zombie and now I'm going to Mexico for a week, what do I do with this phone? Aside from tossing it into the ocean, but thats a definite 'Plan B.'

If you're in Mexico you can just shut off data roaming. No need to shut off cellular data unless you're want to be overly cautious.

I've seen some people shut off cell data and not be able to use it for calls/texting. No idea why. It seemed rather odd. I always shut off just the data roaming when out of country and its been fine.