Minor rant thread. Post your rants o' the day here!

In reply to No Time :

If it makes you feel any better, this was found under my Jeep over the weekend.  Body mount got bit by the tin worm.  Yay more fixes...

In reply to Puddy46 :

Boo. That sucks. 

My admin is on vacation this week. 

We aren't through Monday yet and already the damn phone is about to piss me off. I'll be lucky to get anything done for having to stop and answer the berkeleying thing. 

This is going to be a long week. 

Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:

Removed photo:  It's swollen and purple.

Yeah, but what about your finger?

(Sorry, couldn't resist )

In reply to Puddy46 :

It doesn't make me feel better, but makes me feel bad for you. 

I'll take replacing parts over rust repair any day of the week. 

Did you think I wasn't going to notice the 15% increase on my bill?

When I complained and you offered me less than a tenth of my current data at a dollar per month less than I was paying before the increase, I wonder who was more insulted, me, or you when I asked if you were mentally retarded.

Fortunately I no longer need anywhere near the amount of data I did when I was working, and there's no shortage of lower priced plans with your competitors.

I never liked you or your stupid English accent anyway.

In reply to No Time :

Yeah, it definitely put a damper on the weekend, since the plan was to go do some light trail rides with it.  And the other 5 body mounts look just fine.  The lesson in all this is don't buy a vehicle from Ohio.

I just went with my Son to test drive a car. He's been waiting for this thing to be ready for two weeks, and finally got the call Friday. We arrive, drive the car and realize it has a violent shake starting at 80km/h that gets significantly worse very quickly with speed. We return the car, the salesman asks how it went and I very nicely call him on it. We drove 40 minutes to drive this car and didn't. He half heartedly apologizes. Son asks about OTD pricing and right away he goes into his pitch. I just listen, it's not my deal, and in short order he has the price of that $22k car up to $33k with BS, add ons, extra insurance, and warranties. When I tell him I'm only there because my Son got boned (not nearly that) hard the last time he dealt with them he makes the mistake of trying to sell me. When I call him on his BS, he BS's more, and I start laughing. He then gets his back up, says I'm calling him a liar and says if we don't like it, we should probably be dealing with someone else. When I agree and get up to leave, he suddenly wants to start talking business again.

If you're going to try and take advantage of people, you really have no business being upset when you're called on it.

It's days like today that I miss the times when you could just punch somebody in the face.

Puddy46 said:

In reply to No Time :

Yeah, it definitely put a damper on the weekend, since the plan was to go do some light trail rides with it.  And the other 5 body mounts look just fine.  The lesson in all this is don't buy a vehicle from Ohio.

Sell it as is in Ohio, buy a better one somewhere else, use the profits to go on a nice trail vacation.

One of the silliest comments I saw on here was someone worried that they might buy a used car in Georgia that might have been from Ohio.  Car values are so much higher here that I wouldn't doubt if wholesale price up here is higher than retail down there.

ESPECIALLY Jeeps!  People pay crazy money for Wranglers that literally have nothing left on the frame to hold in the transmission, and see-through front fenders.

I had a discussion prompt in mind that I really wanted to hear opinions about, and while I was trying to decide whether to post it here or on FB, I totally forgot what it was.

berkeley you brain.

Go.

The.

berkeley.

To.

Sleep.

It was 58-degrees and windy at my daughters' softball game last night.  It was 49 degrees when I woke up this morning.  Seemingly very unpopular opinion, but I'd much rather sweat than freeze. 

In reply to Scotty Con Queso :

Totally on your side, man.  Shivering sucks.

In reply to Scotty Con Queso :

hard disagree. I can always put on more layers if i'm cold. But I can only take off so much clothing before someone is calling the cops...

Scotty Con Queso said:

It was 58-degrees and windy at my daughters' softball game last night.  It was 49 degrees when I woke up this morning.  Seemingly very unpopular opinion, but I'd much rather sweat than freeze. 

It was 92 with 90% humidity here yesterday. My balls were boiling in their own sweat 

Give my fat ass cold any day.

Was quite enjoying last evening's temps,  it was perfect

Scotty Con Queso said:

It was 58-degrees and windy at my daughters' softball game last night.  It was 49 degrees when I woke up this morning.  Seemingly very unpopular opinion, but I'd much rather sweat than freeze. 

I'll trade you. 58 sounds glorious. 

My back porch was 100 degrees Sunday afternoon with a humidity level somewhere around 90%. Luckily we had a hail storm last night that brought the temps back down to almost comfortable. 

Our daytime temps will probably stay over 90 for the next 2.5 months with quite a few weeks it will hover around 100+.

I've been ready for winter to return since last month. 

In reply to Toyman! :

Would gladly trade honestly, and will move back to the south again in the next 5-ish years.  11 years in Pittsburgh with 9 months out of the year consisting of clouds/rain/cold has made me long for the heat again.  People here in Pittsburgh literally melt after it gets above 72-degrees with almost no humidity.     But I acknowledge I'm one of the few that prefers the heat. 

In reply to Scotty Con Queso :

I'm pretty sure I'm going to turn into a snowbird and migrate as needed. South in the winter, north in the summer. At a minimum, it will be somewhere above 3000' in the mountains for the summer and on the coast in the winter. 

Woke up in the middle of the night to The Bat barking her head off at an intermittent beeping that we quickly determined to be the alarm complaining because the power was out. Wasn't anything we could do or really needed to worry about (unlike last Spring's power outage, it hasn't rained in days and the sump pump wasn't going to be needed) so we at least tried to get back to sleep until it was a more normal time to get up.

Got up a bit earlier than normal (as I couldn't really sleep well with the intermittent beeping of the alarm and worrying about the power being out), grabbed the new, stupidly-huge battery/inverter and hooked the fridge up to it so we wouldn't lose any food, and tried to go about my day as normally as possible until the power finally came back up about an hour ago.

Why the heck are we randomly losing power for 5 hours on a very mild day (it was like mid-50's overnight) with no rain or real wind? Even more curious given The Dancer's assistant lost power at her place for a few hours yesterday (which was also a rather nice day). Granted- if we're going to lose power I prefer it to not be when the sump pump is running at like a 50% duty cycle so if we had to I couldn't really have asked for a better time. But what the heck caused a tree/limb to fall on a power line at 5 am on a calm night?

Also: Dammit Apple, why can you never keep AirDrop berking working right? Before the last few updates I could easily AirDrop pictures from my phone to my iMac, but now it just sits with the phone saying 'Waiting' and the computer not showing any evidence that anything is happening. And also- when I say to download a picture from a text/iMessage (since that's what I have to use when AirDrop doesn't work) I mean download the file to the computer not 'download it into Photos which I never use'.

tester (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to tuna55 :

There is some level of irony in that your project is a truck that will primarily haul air in the future.  

I had the exact same thought.  

As a guy who has owned a pickup truck for most of my life, I reject the stereotyping.  I have driven many trucks with beds "full of air" as the kids say.  Usually on my way to pick up a load, or on my home having just dropped one off.  Logically, most pickup trucks must have their beds full of air at least half the time they are on the road.  

Most of the pickup trucks I see driven on the road are being driven like normal cars.  The ones that do behave poorly are just crappy people, or perhaps just having a crappy day, it's not necessarily related to their car of choice (though they may have chosen said vehicle, and modified it, probably more out of enthusiasm than spite).  The click-bait articles online would have you believe differently, and stereotypes get likes, as we can see from the 10+ on the OP's post.  Everything's gotta be "red state/blue state", even though I know plenty of Democrats who like their trucks and plenty of Republicans who like their hybrids.  

volvoclearinghouse said:

tester (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to tuna55 :

There is some level of irony in that your project is a truck that will primarily haul air in the future.  

I had the exact same thought.  

As a guy who has owned a pickup truck for most of my life, I reject the stereotyping.  I have driven many trucks with beds "full of air" as the kids say.  Usually on my way to pick up a load, or on my home having just dropped one off.  Logically, most pickup trucks must have their beds full of air at least half the time they are on the road.  

Most of the pickup trucks I see driven on the road are being driven like normal cars.  The ones that do behave poorly are just crappy people, or perhaps just having a crappy day, it's not necessarily related to their car of choice (though they may have chosen said vehicle, and modified it, probably more out of enthusiasm than spite).  The click-bait articles online would have you believe differently, and stereotypes get likes, as we can see from the 10+ on the OP's post.  Everything's gotta be "red state/blue state", even though I know plenty of Democrats who like their trucks and plenty of Republicans who like their hybrids.  

Nobody actually hauling anything has ever given me trouble. It's only empty trucks, presumably commuting. You can not like it, but's actual hard-earned data. Those mentioned, in those proportions, drive as if they are angry with me just for having an EV. This was not a thing in other vehicles.

volvoclearinghouse said:

... stereotypes get likes, as we can see from the 10+ on the OP's post.  Everything's gotta be "red state/blue state" ...

Most people here are typically a little more sophisticated than that. It could also be that others have had similar experiences. I have. Nobody's accusing you of anything. 

And nobody else made this political. One comment that a guy sees butthurt behavior even in a reasonably progressive area is not exactly a culture war.

Unrelated minor rant:

Is there a logistical reason my lawn mower carburetor had to come from Rancho Cucamonga to western Oregon by way of City of Industry, Rancho Cucamonga, Los Angeles, Eugene, Portland, City of Industry, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Portland? You guys getting paid by the mile or something? Am I gonna see this turd anytime soon or should I call it now and order another one?

DM's rant reminded me of one of my own- our lawn guy hasn't come by to mow our lawn for like 3 weeks now and our back yard is getting ridiculously long. He's said he would be coming by on like 3 different days (well, 2 days and then sometime over this last weekend)- he said he'd be coming by today, but I've not heard anything from him. And the landscaping company he recommended to come trim the trees/shrubs/bushes in our front yard hasn't gotten back to me for like a week now either.  

Yeah, it's kind of a First World Problem (though not as much as if I'd ranted about the toilet seat being cold this morning because the power was out and the heated seat on the bidet seat was obviously not working), but it's still annoying. At least we pay him each time he mows and not a flat rate per month.

Still better than having to do it myself though... I really hate yard work (yet somehow I'll put up a fence in the dead of summer). 

In reply to tuna55 :

Maybe it's the "I drive and EV and I'm better than you" bumper sticker you've got?