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

Flight Service wrote:

Kenny_McCormic wrote:

Appleseed wrote: Imagine how quick that E36 M3 would change if the accountants had to work on crap they berkeleyed with for a year.

FTFY

As an engineer I support this correction. It really is the damn bean counters. They won't let engineers work in teams anymore so you get this damn piece milled modularized crap that doesn't quite fit.

Wanna see a car built, produced, and sold by engineers? Pick up a W126 Chassis S class Mercedes, even the door hinges have grease fittings, everything is fully serviceable, there isn't a single case of "Why the hell did they do that?" on the whole car.

Todays paper.

Seriously?!?!?!?!?!?

May 1st. Snowed this morning. More snow coming tonight and tomorrow. Is there another thread to post major rants?

In reply to logdog: Is that the Lapeer newspaper?

Where did you think the homeless people were going to go lady? When you left college and decided to move to New York did you really think the whole city looked like the set from Friends? You couldn't afford to live in that part so you and your husband bought a place in an "Up and Coming" neighborhood.

This week I'm working on 116st in Harlem. 20 yrs ago it was a crime ridden E36 M3hole filled with junkies and prostitutes. I'm standing in a stop watching my buses go by when a young mother stops to talk to me. Being white like her I must share her point of view.

She crossed the street to get away from the people lined up at the food pantry and the mosque. "It's disgraceful" she says. Yep, sure is those old folks stand in line for an hour to see what their gonna eat this week. That's not what she meant. She starts to go on about how when they bought the apartment the realtor swore to them that all "those" people were moving out. Instead the built an even bigger food pantry and the line goes around the block. Now she can't sell for what she paid because the economy has stalled. Worse still I encourage their behavior by buying a panhandler a cup of coffee. That's me, the enabler, Shakey was gonna roll his ass down to a million dollar job at Google but then someone got him a coffee so he decided to stick with begging another day to see where it goes. She seemed stunned that I didn't agree with her and that I would talk to some of these awful people out here in HER neighborhood. It felt kinda odd being the evil white conservative man that the news hates so much trying to explain to a young educated person why they may be mistaken about their point of people. I guess helping people is only a good thing to do when those people live somewhere else.

In reply to Wally:

Wow! Sounds like she has a silver spoon complex.

Yep, 'those people' really drag the property values down. WTF did she and hubby think was going to happen when they overpaid for their crib, planning to make a bundle when 'those people' moved out and the 'right people' started buying around them. Sh!t like that is why I refuse to watch 'Selling New York' and similar garbage; I hate seeing snotty people having their asses kissed, thus making them even worse.

berkeleying car dealers, if you sell a car pull the berkeleying ad already... don't use it as bait. Was searching CL for used Challengers, found two at different Dodge dealers, contact dealer for price bullE36 M3, fill out internet form or call for details.

Went to the dealer websites cause maybe just maybe they'd post a real berkeleying price.... and guess what, no such animal.

Wally wrote: Being white like her I must share her point of view.

I know the feeling. Happens every time I go to a small town. Just because I have the accent..

I really need to work on my quick temper, but it's very difficult to do when E36 M3 keeps getting parked right outside my bay, forcing me to move said E36 M3, pull the car I'm working on in, then move said E36 M3 back. Every time. Every day.
Nobody else seems to see this as a problem, but if you park E36 M3 in front of their bay, they will raise holy hell to get it moved ASAP. But here I am, also flat rate, but limited by what I even get to work on (I don't get internal work for the most part, so no gravy used cars, pdis, no big jobs, and usually no recalls), so i have to work on 15-20 cars a day to make my time, but it's not a big deal that I have to move E36 M3 just to get into my bay and make a living.
Tow truck dropped off a car today. Usual spot is right in front of my bay, because it used to be unoccupied (I just moved into it a couple days ago)
I ran to ask the service manager where I should ask the driver to drop the car, he told me to get him to drop it outside. I asked the guy if there was space outside and he said sure no problem, pulls out. Shop foreman/master tech/guy I apprenticed under starts raising hell that he's gonna have to push it in from outside just to get it in his bay. I said that I asked the mgr where it should go and he said outside, but he still has an issue with that. Said if it's going outside then he guesses I'll be the one pushing it in. "I highly berkeleying doubt it" was my response. I will of course help anybody push anything around the shop, but it's not my berkeleying responsibility and it's not me that's getting paid for it. I spent an hour yesterday moving office furniture out of my bay so I could use it. With all the E36 M3 the shop needs they decided to buy the accounting department an entire suite of new furniture because the old stuff was ugly. I already have to deal with the contracted detailers working right behind my bay, I already have to ask them to move every time I move a car, I already have to do 10,000 point turns to get out of my corner bay, the only way I see to make sure people don't continue to walk over me and block my source of income is to be an shiny happy person about it so they get the point. I'm not going to spend ten minutes just pulling a car every time. no one else has to deal with that E36 M3 so why should I?

If I wasn't still making more money than I would somewhere else I would leave in a second over this bullE36 M3. I make the service department $15,000 a month in PROFIT, and this is the E36 M3 I get dealt?

pilotbraden wrote: In reply to logdog: Is that the Lapeer newspaper?

Yep. The editorial page is worth the subscription!

berkeley. UPS tracking shows the package is in Sharonville right now. Right down the street, I could drive there in 5 minutes. Yet the package won't be delivered until Monday?? (It's plasti-dip paint for the rally wheels, a perfect weekend job.)

Flight Service wrote:

Kenny_McCormic wrote:

Appleseed wrote: Imagine how quick that E36 M3 would change if the accountants had to work on crap they berkeleyed with for a year.

FTFY

As an engineer I support this correction. It really is the damn bean counters. They won't let engineers work in teams anymore so you get this damn piece milled modularized crap that doesn't quite fit.

As engineer I only partly support this correction. There were plenty of engineers I graduated with that didn't know how to turn a wrench, drill a hole or anything and having worked with some of them I suddenly understand why some stuff is so badly designed

I have a social function to attend to tonight. I need black pants. I find said black pants. I am sad black pants don't fit. They are 4 inches too big in the waist then I require. I hope my belt will keep them up.

Ranger50 wrote: I have a social function to attend to tonight. I need black pants. I find said black pants. I am sad black pants don't fit. They are 4 inches too big in the waist then I require. I hope my belt will keep them up.

Fold over both sides along seam to attain fit, clip, stitch the folded over parts together. Shouldn't take long to put the stitch or two in.

Rented a truck last night from Home Depot--newish F250, no options. Very nice truck. But the turn signals were driving me nuts. I've driven probably over 100 cars, and I can't remember any of the turn signals working like this one. You flip the stalk down, and you expect it to stay down. It doesn't. It pops back up, but the turn signal is on. So I wouldn't notice the signal is on, since I don't stare at my dash, but do notice that the damn stalk popped back up. I hit it again, same thing happens except that I turned it off. Drove me nuts.

In reply to mtn:

My mom has 2 year old Explorer that does that same thing and it is maddening. Also the visibility in the Explorer is dismal.

pilotbraden wrote: In reply to mtn: Also the visibility in the Explorer is dismal.

Why? Is it foggy in there?

Why do the people who make websites spend so much effort in trying to prevent hotlinking?

First of all, if I want to show the world pictures of your fabrication I'm not hurting you. Heck, I'm probably helping you by improving your reputation.

Second, you try to do this by disabling right clicks in javascript? Really? It is a language that I can disable in my browser settings.....You're trying to control my behavior with an optional language? Do you really think I'm too stupid to turn javascript off?

Living here on the sides of mountains sucks ass. I went to help out my MIL by going up with here to a family cemetery on the side of a mountain. Trying to get out of the one lane path leading to the cemetery, I get stuck. So, right now, I have my truck teetering half on and half off of said path ready to roll down the mountain side. Either I am getting it out this morning before the rain hits or it will be ready for an insurance claim.

Ranger50 wrote: I have a social function to attend to tonight. I need black pants. I find said black pants. I am sad black pants don't fit. They are 4 inches too big in the waist then I require. I hope my belt will keep them up.

Wire ties for the win !

Karl La Follette wrote:

Ranger50 wrote: I have a social function to attend to tonight. I need black pants. I find said black pants. I am sad black pants don't fit. They are 4 inches too big in the waist then I require. I hope my belt will keep them up.

Wire ties for the win !

I've had pretty good luck with a stapler in a real pinch. Just don't forget to pull the staples before you wash them.

canoes that paddle so fast that they've created another six threads by the time you're logged into the admin side to delete their account

Reffing hockey:

No, it is not a tripping penalty when you fall down because you skate into his stick. Don't skate into his stick if you are going to fall down after doing it. I'm not going to award you for having no skill.

I saw the guy fly into the net. I saw you standing behind him with your arms extended. Sorry if he fell and really sold it and you didn't do anything. Won't be the last mistake I make. You swearing at me doesn't change anything, and you still lost by 7. Go take it up with the league manager about the other team being too good for the level they are in.

Dear Darien Sportsplex designer: You have an ice arena with 3 sheets of ice. All hockey games will use at least 2 referees. Some high school games will use 4. You have at least 4 high schools that call this their home rink. That means that at any given time, there stands the possibility that there are 2 to 12 referees here. In the [unlikely chance] that there are back to back varsity games on each rink with a completely different officiating crew, you could have 24 referees who need to use the locker room. Design the berkeleyer large enough to fit us all! Or, you know, at least 10 of us.

This rant will probably come across as racist. I apologize if I have offended anyone.

Why is it possible to come into this country (probably legally, seeing as most of the people I'm talking about are in real jobs that can't be done under the table) after living in a country with probably the most dangerous roads in the world, and you are able to get a drivers license without being told that you have to go at least 45 MPH on the highway? You are going to cause a massive pileup. Hit the skinny pedal to the right of the brake, and go with the flow. If you can't do that, stay off the highway.