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

In reply to Spearfishin :

Scott Williams is the CEO of Batteries Plus. Here's a few possible email addresses for him:

swilliams@batteriesplus.com
scott.williams@batteriesplus.com
scott@batteriesplus.com
s.williams@batteriesplus.com

Send him an email outlining the sitution and see what happens. Next step is calling your state Attorney General's office. That's a serious chunk of change for them to blow off.

slefain said:

In reply to Spearfishin :

Scott Williams is the CEO of Batteries Plus. Here's a few possible email addresses for him:

swilliams@batteriesplus.com
scott.williams@batteriesplus.com
scott@batteriesplus.com
s.williams@batteriesplus.com

Send him an email outlining the sitution and see what happens. Next step is calling your state Attorney General's office. That's a serious chunk of change for them to blow off.

 

I went to the store I bought them from over lunch. Now I'm just stuck in the "our $75 tester says they're good to go" phase of the battle. Which is the part I knew I was up against. 

RevRico said:

Thanks aircooled

Nope.  We don't need to do that either.  There were plenty of causes for that, his post was just the last straw.

I shouldn't have called him out either, and I'm sorry for doing so.

Spearfishin said:

I went to the store I bought them from over lunch. Now I'm just stuck in the "our $75 tester says they're good to go" phase of the battle. Which is the part I knew I was up against. 

"That's interesting. Mine says they aren't. Let's throw them on your charger and see if you can get them to take a charge."

For Bob's sake, you made your point.  It was seen.  You're on record as being righteous.

Next time, drop it and move on.

DarkMonohue said:

Spearfishin said:

I went to the store I bought them from over lunch. Now I'm just stuck in the "our $75 tester says they're good to go" phase of the battle. Which is the part I knew I was up against. 

"That's interesting. Mine says they aren't. Let's throw them on your charger and see if you can get them to take a charge."

That's where we left it! Shall update tomorrow.

arrived at the airport around midnight and went to get the rental car I reserved. there was no one at the desk and I couldn't get through to anyone on the phone. Avis was supposed to be open until 1am, but I guess they ran out of cars and just went home. Now I had to take a $100 uber to my hotel in a different city, and I'll have to pick up a rental car in town in the morning. 

I've got some terrific memes in the chamber, but no Meme Thread to post them in.

gixxeropa said:

arrived at the airport around midnight and went to get the rental car I reserved. there was no one at the desk and I couldn't get through to anyone on the phone. Avis was supposed to be open until 1am, but I guess they ran out of cars and just went home. Now I had to take a $100 uber to my hotel in a different city, and I'll have to pick up a rental car in town in the morning. 

Did you give the customer service 1800 number a try? I managed to get someone to an abandoned airline ticket counter in an analogous situation via their national CS number. 

I want to see Nick's memes.

Man, there's some weird E36 M3 going on in the forum lately.

In reply to Appleseed :

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/

Man, the same old E36 M3 on the forum gets tired after a while.

Maybe some of the usual suspects need a little time off so they can sit in the corner and think about what they've done.

In reply to Spearfishin :

Yeah me and several others from my flight were standing at the desk trying to get through. Gave up after being on hold forever

In reply to Peabody :

It's pretty easy to scroll on by. I recommend it if a thread or person is getting under your skin. 

The only irritating part is the meme thread being locked. If it stays that way for long I'll be starting a new one. 

In reply to Peabody :

Appleseed said:

Man, there's some weird E36 M3 going on in the forum lately.

Toyman! said:

In reply to Peabody :

It's pretty easy to scroll on by. I recommend it if a thread or person is getting under your skin.

It was really more of a comment on what Appleseed said. There's nothing weird going on here lately it's 100% business as usual.

I have no problem scrolling by, but it still gets tired when interesting threads get locked because the same few people get involved and purposely and completely derail them.

When I used to complain about the political and religious threads back in the day, and people would say, you don't have to read it if you don't like it, they missed what I was really complaining about. It made the forum, a car forum, a not very enjoyable place when people were constantly arguing. This forum has come a long way from those ugly days, and I know why threads are constantly being locked, but I don't have to agree with it.

I took the rage bait this morning.

I got on social media, saw something, verified it was real, got mad, told someone else about it IRL, felt bad because I realized I sounded like a crank and more so because I fear I represented a negative to their day.

I am getting very little out of my routine, non-task-driven internet time these days. I need to establish a good regimen for finding out about the world, then being done.

What's the news? What are the humans who I actually know up to? What's the vibe around my niche hobby interests?

Okay, done.

I just need to figure out how to do that.

In reply to Mike (Forum Supporter) :

I used The 1440 for morning news briefs. It is short and to the point with no opinion. 

I use Allsides for more in-depth news. It offers exactly what it says. All sides of the story including some opinion. 

GRM is of course a source for some motorsports. 

From there, I have a very select group of Facebook friends and a fairly short list of Facebook groups that I follow. 

gixxeropa said:

In reply to Spearfishin :

Yeah me and several others from my flight were standing at the desk trying to get through. Gave up after being on hold forever

That sucks. My go-to is Alamo/Enterprise. Knock on wood, haven't let me down yet!

Mike (Forum Supporter) said:

I am getting very little out of my routine, non-task-driven internet time these days. I need to establish a good regimen for finding out about the world, then being done.

What's the news? What are the humans who I actually know up to? What's the vibe around my niche hobby interests?

Okay, done.

I just need to figure out how to do that.

Step One to getting more satisfaction would be to skip that bolded part.

If it's important, you'll find out about it.

If you don't find out about it naturally, it was probably rage bait anyway.

Peabody said:

Toyman! said:

In reply to Peabody :

It's pretty easy to scroll on by. I recommend it if a thread or person is getting under your skin.

It was really more of a comment on what Appleseed said. There's nothing weird going on here lately it's 100% business as usual.

I have no problem scrolling by, but it still gets tired when interesting threads get locked because the same few people get involved and purposely and completely derail them.

When I used to complain about the political and religious threads back in the day, and people would say, you don't have to read it if you don't like it, they missed what I was really complaining about. It made the forum, a car forum, a not very enjoyable place when people were constantly arguing. This forum has come a long way from those ugly days, and I know why threads are constantly being locked, but I don't have to agree with it.

When you are hanging out with your car buddies is cars all you talk about? My car buddies cover an entire gamut of subjects. I don't expect the forum to be different. It's not the subjects that get threads closed, it's the people who can't walk away when the participants become unreasonable. The forum owners don't agree so some subjects are verboten. I completely understand why so I try to play by their rules. 

I do agree having good threads locked isn't a good thing. Unfortunately, the meme thread is an easy target for going a little sideways. One man's fun is frequently another man's offense. I know for a fact that I push the limit on occasion because I honestly find most offensive things funny. 

Toyman! said:

In reply to Mike (Forum Supporter) :

I used The 1440 for morning news briefs. It is short and to the point with no opinion. 

I use Allsides for more in-depth news. It offers exactly what it says. All sides of the story including some opinion. 

GRM is of course a source for some motorsports. 

From there, I have a very select group of Facebook friends and a fairly short list of Facebook groups that I follow. 

And to reinforce Mike's point: I have become so thin-skinned, cynical and reactionary that I read 1440 and, before I could stop myself, falsely correlated it to an AM radio frequency, assumed it was about as unbiased as you'd expect from talk radio, made an unfair snap judgement about your bias, and started mentally mumbling to myself that there are no neutral news sources left. All without so much as as even cursory research into the validity of the outlet.

I am not good at 2024.

In the most minor of rants, I've become accustomed to binging shows and dislike when they're released weekly.