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

Went in to court this morning to finalize my divorce.  Had my Pentax with me, stopped and took a picture of the statue out in front of the building (its a nice one, 13th Judicial Court, 800 E Twiggs, Tampa, if you wanna look)

This deranged nutter asks me if I took a picture of him, I tell him truthfully I didn't even realize he was there and I was taking a picture of the courthouse. He tries to take his phone out and take a picture of me, but the light has changed so I'm walking across the street towards the courthouse and he is following me ranting and raving.

Was so bad one of the deputies in the area starts to wander over to ask what's going on and I ended up held up for 10 minutes while this guy tries to get me to show the deputy that I took a picture of him, despite the fact that its a film camera.

Finally I showed the deputy my appointment letter, told him I have somewhere to be, and this guy can be crazy on his own time but not mine and left.

Guy was still yelling when I was heading to the elevator after passing through the metal detectors and such.

Spearfishin said:

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.

Positive/reasonable resolution: one battery was "iffy", other was fine. That's actually what my fancy smart chargers were telling me. So, since they're in use as a pair, I bought a single new one, they're warranty-ing the other, and I'm keeping the "good" one to have around and she waived the core on the one I'm buying. 

But that first location I stopped can still pound sand. 

And then this.  

Noddaz daughter is ok, and that is what is important.

I am supposed to go on a date on Saturday, but last night she dropped the 'Oh you play video games' on me when I mentioned I was streaming for the evening...

Noddaz said:

And then this.  

Noddaz daughter is ok, and that is what is important.

Been there, no fun. Other driver(s) good? 

In reply to Noddaz :

Ooooh, sorry to see that.  Best of everything for a quick and reasonably painless resolution.

In reply to mtn :

To add onto that, I've become accustomed to binging shows without ad breaks. Between streaming and piracy my tv shows haven't had ads for almost 20 years. So watching shows like say Harry Potter baking championship, where it's on ad free HBO Max, and seeing the cuts to commercial with the "here's what happened right before the commercial break" recap really throws me off.

Not quite as bad as the shows from Discovery networks that have 4 minutes of show, 14 minutes of ads, and 12 minutes of what happened before and after the ads, but still annoying. 

Late edit: another annoyance just popped into my head. The shows that get shorter as they get more successful. Season 1 starts at 23 minutes of show, but by season 4 it's down to 20, and season 8 down to 17. Big bang theory comes to mind first and foremost, and Archer, but it's prolific everywhere. 

DjGreggieP said:

I am supposed to go on a date on Saturday, but last night she dropped the 'Oh you play video games' on me when I mentioned I was streaming for the evening...

 

"Yes, I am a grown-ass adult and have hobbies outside of sleeping and working."

Noddaz said:

And then this.  

Noddaz daughter is ok, and that is what is important.

Glad she's OK. How much for the wheels?

In reply to Toyman! :

Me and my car, or bike buddies, when we get together it's probably greater than 95% car or bike talk, but that's not really what I meant.

(it's) a car forum = this is supposed to be fun

Why do some manufacturers produce shampoo and conditioner in identical bottles with only a tiny font to differentiate the two?

In reply to RX Reven' :

Be glad you apparently still have enough hair for that to matter.

Peabody said:

In reply to Toyman! :

Me and my car, or bike buddies, when we get together it's probably greater than 95% car or bike talk, but that's not really what I meant.

(it's) a car forum = this is supposed to be fun

 

Interesting. Ours is probably 60% car and 40% food, gardening, family, work, telling jokes, etc. It may be more like 50/50. 

Conversation is fun. All of it. The threads people disagree in tell you more about the people. I enjoy the discourse even when I don't necessarily agree with the other person's opinion. An echo chamber gets pretty boring. 

Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:

In reply to RX Reven' :

Be glad you apparently still have enough hair for that to matter.

I'm bald. But I have a daughter who is neither bald nor capable of washing or conditioning her own hair. Just last night I washed her hair, and then grabbed what I was sure was the other bottle to put conditioner in her hair and instead squirted even more shampoo into my hand. I don't understand why they have to match. Make them opposing colors or something. 

In reply to Toyman! :

Small sample size, I don't really have any friends. 

Discussion and discourse is fun. When it degrades to the point where it's locked, not so fun. And it doesn't have to happen... all the time. 

Duke said:

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.

 

I used to listen to mostly news/talk radio and podcasts on my ridiculously long commute. Have switched to nothing but music and comedy and I feel happier. Like, noticeably happier. Is it worth it to be less informed? Probably, because I couldn't directly change 99% of what I was hearing on "the news". 

In reply to Spearfishin :

Most talk radio is opinion pieces, not news.  

People confuse opinions and wild speculation for news.

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

In reply to Spearfishin :

Most talk radio is opinion pieces, not news. 

People confuse opinions and wild speculation for news.

THIS.  In my experience, nothing but the most boring, old-school talk radio (which doesn't really exist anymore) is anything other than a radically-biased outrage generator.

Talk radio.

I commuted and listened to the same guy forever. We were about the same age, I can even remember when he started as an FM DJ around 79. His shows were always lighthearted, often had funny topics, and he always had some sort of automotive content of Fridays. Unfortunately he aged out and the station got rid of him.

There were two local guys, very similar, very fair, very reasonable, lighthearted, and very good. One morning last August they announced the station was shutting down, and they weren't kidding. Within an hour it was gone. Fortunately I've found a few years worth of podcasts from one of the guys, and I listen to that often when I have a long drive.

There is almost no talk radio worth listening to anymore.

In reply to RevRico :

We've watched some 70-80s tv recently (streaming or DVD), which mostly had 52-53 minutes of content for a "1 hour" show... it's a stark contrast to today's shows that may have 40-45 minutes of content in "1 hour".  I've seen some that dipped into the 30s, and that doesn't include the 're-cap' coming back from break nonsense.

In reply to Noddaz :

OOF, I'm glad she's OK as that's all that matters.  I've been there too, guy ran a light and tboned my daughter and son in her E36 M3box 2001 Cavalier a ways back.  Could not have cared less about the car but I'm happy to say it sacrificed itself to save our kids. 

F150 going at least 30 mph through a red light hit the B pillar on a 2 door, it spun which helped diffuse some of the energy.  Other than some bruises from the seatbelts and some minor scrapes they were both fine.  It helped that an off duty police officer and a nurse witnessed it. Miracles happen!

DarkMonohue said:

Noddaz said:

And then this.  

Noddaz daughter is ok, and that is what is important.

Glad she's OK. How much for the wheels?

Most GRM post ever. /thread

Mr_Asa said:

Went in to court this morning to finalize my divorce.  Had my Pentax with me, stopped and took a picture of the statue out in front of the building (its a nice one, 13th Judicial Court, 800 E Twiggs, Tampa, if you wanna look)

This deranged nutter asks me if I took a picture of him, I tell him truthfully I didn't even realize he was there and I was taking a picture of the courthouse. He tries to take his phone out and take a picture of me, but the light has changed so I'm walking across the street towards the courthouse and he is following me ranting and raving.

Was so bad one of the deputies in the area starts to wander over to ask what's going on and I ended up held up for 10 minutes while this guy tries to get me to show the deputy that I took a picture of him, despite the fact that its a film camera.

Finally I showed the deputy my appointment letter, told him I have somewhere to be, and this guy can be crazy on his own time but not mine and left.

Guy was still yelling when I was heading to the elevator after passing through the metal detectors and such.

Today kinda sucked, in general.

berkeley this, I'm gonna eat dinner and go to bed

So was there a potato blight or something this year? Like all year long the potatoes I've been buying have been E36 M3, no matter where I get them from. At best they last a week, if they aren't hiding rotten ones in the middle of the bag that I find when I get home.

I actually think they arrive frozen at my one grocery store because of all the condensation in the bags all the time. 

But not only have they not been lasting and of overall lower quality, they're a lot smaller than they used to be too. 

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

Personally I think  I'd be happy with her admitting that I'd be wasting my time going forward in this case.