B430 wrote: Dear people who make commercials: please stop putting doorbell sounds in your ads, it makes my stupid dogs go nuts.
Amen. But in our case it makes one of the cats run and hide under the bed for the next hour.
B430 wrote: Dear people who make commercials: please stop putting doorbell sounds in your ads, it makes my stupid dogs go nuts.
Amen. But in our case it makes one of the cats run and hide under the bed for the next hour.
If you ask for directions, don't argue when they aren't what you want to hear. I was at Battery Park and someone asked how to get to the Liberty Bell. I must have misunderstood because I said it was in Philly when any idiot should be able to figure out it should be by the Statue of Liberty since the both have liberty right in the name. By that logic perhaps they should both be in Liberty Minnesota. He said he was going to have to find someone who wasn't an shiny happy person since I was pretty insistant that the Bell was not here. I suggested he look in Liberty Wisconsin since those people seem rather friendly
Why ask for my opinion on a good hatchback to buy and then ignore that semi-educted opinion backed up by facts and figures and then go buy a silver Nissan Versa? There are so many better cars in that market, why purposely go buy, what is essentially, a brand new rental car?
I sometimes hate being the resident car/computer guy in my wife's family, the only time they chat with me is to ask my opinion about cars or computers and I either have my opinion ignored or I end up getting volunteered to help somehow.
Oddly, when I mention that I'm having trouble with one of my cars/computers, the first words out of their mouths is to buy a new car/computer. Case in point, one of the other guys in the family has a 12-year old Explorer with about 190K on the clock. He's not had to do much maintenance on it, other than routine stuff. Last year it was $1200 for brakes, etc. Now its a tune-up, but there is a misfire, which could be a coil issue or something worse since it is running a little warm. His wife's first words were about how much he's spent on the thing recently and that it would be cheaper to get a new car. We both look at each other and quickly rationalize the cost of a 3-5 year car payment versus $2000/year in maintenance for a truck that is just getting broken in and she wonders why people in this country are broke?
Styled steel wheels. Why are they only on trucks and SUVs anymore? I would rather have those than plain black steel wheels with ugly wheel covers.
In reply to neon4891:
Buy a cop car. 
In reply to neon4891:
Wheel covers:
Why do all wheel covers have to be imitation alloy wheels these days? And ugly ones at that. Why not take advantage of the design freedom that using a wheel cover affords you (it is not a wheel, it's a cover), and create something cool (follow the examples of cars from the 50s and 60s)?
The inefficient, archaic IT department at my new gubbermint job.
Hey, know what would fix this? Un-installing then re-installing the program. Can I do this myself? No. Have to wait on hold for 20 minutes for some snarky nerd to take over and do it for me. Which'd almost be fine, if the IT-jockey wasn't a sarcastic dick. End rant.
turboswede wrote: Why ask for my opinion on a good hatchback to buy and then ignore that semi-educted opinion backed up by facts and figures and then go buy a silver Nissan Versa?
I have a theory about people who ask for advice. They only want it when it agrees with them..
Okay, Curmudgeon: the scrawny chick who can't shift is in the T Mobile ads, not Verizon. Get your facts straight before you bitch, you old fart.
In reply to Curmudgeon:
she needs some meat on dem bones, her legs drive me nuts
Is it just me, or does her face look awfully emaciated too?
They say TV adds 10 pounds, if so she's REALLY scrawny.
Nah, its not just you. She needs a couple bacon sammiches.
She oughta be filled out n prime by 40- 45
She looks fine. Are you guys dating chicks from Wisconsin?
Luke wrote: The inefficient, archaic IT department at my new gubbermint job. Hey, know what would fix this? Un-installing then re-installing the program. Can I do this myself? No. Have to wait on hold for 20 minutes for some snarky nerd to take over and do it for me. Which'd almost be fine, if the IT-jockey wasn't a sarcastic dick. End rant.
Dear 50 something Harley rider,
Despite the fact that you are wearing a Harley vest, oversize Harley wallet (with chain), Harley boots and a skull and crossbones bandana where a helmet should be, we all know you are an accountant. The fact that you are wearing bright orange ear plugs means you have been riding that ear-splittingly loud Harley for all of two weeks, or you would already be deaf and have no need of said ear plugs. Unfortunately, everyone within three blocks of you now has permanent hearing loss, except perhaps for your "biker buddy" (the chemistry professor) who is also wearing ear plugs. Oh, and please get that piece of crap tuned up. (The only reason I can imagine why you keep revving that ridiculous contraption while sitting at a light is that you must do so to keep it running) When you finally cross paths with a real biker and he (or she) proceeds to beat you like a red-headed step child for being a poser, please share photos. This will partially compensate those around you for the hearing loss.
Regards,
the rest of us.
90s GM Bean Counters
Thanks for making both AC hoses on my POS J body one big hose assembly, so I have to spend $70 and buy both hoses instead of one for $30. My high pressure line let go today, blinding everybody on 127 in a cloud of smoke from the compressor oil burning on the exhaust manifold.
Too bad the oil didn't set the engine bay on fire and burn the car to the ground. Insurance would have payed out way more than I have into this beater.
What is the point of hiring engineers if you just go off and decide to make technical changes with out asking the engineers?
Dear everyone:
Stop being such a bunch of pussbag bitches and harden the berkeley up. You make life suck being snively whiny "think of the children" people.
Dear IDPA,
berkeley you and your Failure To Do Right penalties.
While I love friendly explosive pillows in my steering wheel that threaten to remove my head, I really hate that I can't reach the steering wheel in anything anymore unless my knees are jammed into the dash.
Dear beer,
Stop being so delicious.
93EXCivic wrote: What is the point of hiring engineers if you just go off and decide to make technical changes with out asking the engineers?
Dude, did you ever read Dilbert before becoming an engineer?
HiTempguy wrote: Dear everyone: Stop being such a bunch of pussbag bitches and harden the berkeley up. You make life suck being snively whiny "think of the children" people.
Thank you, now pass me a delicious beer
tuna55 wrote:93EXCivic wrote: What is the point of hiring engineers if you just go off and decide to make technical changes with out asking the engineers?Dude, did you ever read Dilbert before becoming an engineer?
Weird thing..when I first started at my (ex) company, I didn't even understand Dilbert. After all the industry people were replaced by "businessmen", I thought it was the funniest thing in the paper.
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