I visited my son this weekend and due to age and stupidity I couldn’t remember if I’d locked the car.The mirrors looked as if they folded in but I wanted to check. I pressed the key fob to no avail as I was too far away.
My son said to put the key fob to my head and press the button. As we enjoy trying to make each other look stupid I decided I’d not fall for it. “No it’s genuine and it works” said son.
I tried it and lo and behold it worked. I checked it out later and there is some scientific reason it works, something to do with salts and electricity in the brain.
I just wanted to share this with you all.
Any other things you thought was total rowlocks and turned out to be true?
Check out the Google reviews of ‘Gastro’pubs before you decide to go to one on a Saturday evening. I went to a local one in Essex with my Mum two days ago and had a truly Fawlty Towers Gourmet Night experience. Turns out the online reviews almost all predicted this.
I often check Google reviews for restaurants especially if I have never been there before. There will always be some bad reviews, but I see if the owner/manager responds, if he does then likely it’s a good place and they want to put things right. No response = They don’t give a shit.
I think it’s more likely because putting the fob on your head raises it higher off the ground, and so the radio signal will go further. Try also: raising your arm.
Salts and electricity in the brain: rowlocks.
Here’s Snopes.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/car-keys-locking-range-boost/
I shall experiment later. Though when I did it I’d already raised my arm before to no avail.
“Although the technique is completely safe, the user also reported the best method that didn’t involve putting the key to your head: pointing your remote directly at the car at an average body height.”
I did that in the first place it didn’t work, no reception. Same place up to the temple hey presto.
Surely the best method when you’re out of range of the key-fob is to use the app!
What app would this be?
My SEAT Ibiza has an app that updates all the time so I can (among other things) see where my car is, whether the lights are on and whether the doors are locked. I can then lock or unlock them wherever I am. It also has a button (which I’ve not needed yet!) to flash the lights and sound the horn if I can’t find it in a car park. I assumed most newish cars (mine is 4 years old) have similar things these days.
Thanks, it possibly does but as I don’t have a smartphone or even a phone that could be a problem. I suppose I could use my tablet.
I’ve no idea why or how, but it truly does work! Years ago it was on Top Gear and I tried it afterwards and have occasionally resorted to it over the years.
A surprising thing I learned is that West Ham’s impending relegation will cost London’s taxpayers around £2.5 million. Apparently their lease agreement with the Greater London Authority means they pay around half the current annual rent it they are relegated, with local taxpayers making up the shortfall.
What kind of crazy deal is this? They’ll play more matches in the Championship so you’d think the rent would increase. Don’t see why the amount of rent is tied to the level of football they play at.
What kind of crazy deal is this? Ask Boris he agreed to it.
Did you forget about the implant Bill Gates injected into you along with the Covid vaccine?
Of course he did. That’s part of how the implant is programmed.
As I’ve now had twelve covid jabs perhaps that’s why it worked maybe I’m swimming with implants or possibly the submarine from Fantastic Voyage.
Donald Pleasance was in that. Killed by Aunty Bodies.
So was Raquel Welch. Who was also in a spy thriller called Fathom. Supporting Male Lead? Well, I’ll tell you. Richard Briers. Roobarb himself.
And Raquel was ‘married’ to Spike Milligan in The Three Musketeers
And what did Delboy have to say about that?
Raquel Welch’s son married Fred “Ah’ll see thee!” Trueman’s daughter.
Ben Surman, son of the English jazz saxophonist John Surman, married Minya DeJohnette, daughter of the late American jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette.
Ritchie Blackmore was sexually abused by Freddie Starr.
Hang on… Ritchie Blackmore is a hamster?
To the best of my knowledge, Blackmore is not and never has been, nor claimed to be, a hamster. But he does claim that he was sexually abused by Freddie Starr (in Joe Meek’s studio).
I think Chas Hodges also claimed some undue attention in Meek’s studio when he was a young session musician but not AFAIK at the hands of the hamster-harmer.
I learned from my daughters last weekend that old men like me go to nail clinics simply to get their toenails cut properly.
I didn’t know this – I thought those places were just for manicures and to apply nail varnish and that.
I find toenail clipping a bit of a chore, so I might give it a go.
The lovely Vicki calls at my bijou penthouse council flat every ten weeks to cut my toenails. I am unable to do so successfully since my hip hassles.
I find biting my toenails keeps them nice and trim, with the added benefit of maintaining flexibility in my old age……
I could quite possibly be talking bollocks
For a minute there I thought you were talking about your….never mind.
A talking left bollock (or a right one) is impressive enough. Both bollocks having the power of speech is absolutely amazing!
Our podiatrist comes every seven or eight weeks, and I’ve just had a letter saying I have a hospital podiatry appointment which is a surprise so I shall go and see what they have to say.
Talking of talking bollocks I’ve just read Ade Edmondson’s autobiography in which he and Rick bought two pink duvet covers from Brentford Nylons to get into then onstage hang from the lighting rig. The idea is to be the talking testicles of God. Alas the duvet covers are not strong enough to hold them and they fall to the floor.
Point Nemo. I found out about this in a Y3 lesson somehow.
It’s the most remote part of the Oceans, the furthest from any land.. So much so that NASA have decreed it a good spot for satellites and space junk to be deposited there. Which made me feel a bit sad.
There is a band called Point Nemo apparently. I have no idea what they sound like but they better be a prog band.
Nemo is Greek for no one.