I just had to make a gasket, because for some reason on my A4OD transmission there is a C6 extension housing. Well all good and done there and MY berkeleying HOOD LATCH DIDN'T CATCH AND NOW I NEED A NEW berkeleying HOOD!
I just had to make a gasket, because for some reason on my A4OD transmission there is a C6 extension housing. Well all good and done there and MY berkeleying HOOD LATCH DIDN'T CATCH AND NOW I NEED A NEW berkeleying HOOD!
Dear silver Dodge Ram driver,
You were going 30 in a 50, so it shouldn't have surprised you that I might have wanted to go faster. So when I crossed the dotted yellow to pass, so did you, to block me. Way to be a shiny happy person.
Nothing to rant about at the moment.. just wanna bag another post 
that is all
Zomby woof wrote: French fries. Why does something that can be SO good, have to be so marginal at so many places? Why do I get limp, oily, salty cardboard tasting fries with my $20 ribs or steak? Come on restaurants, it pretty simple, even Mcdonalds can get it right sometimes. Put sliced potatoes in hot oil until crispy. Serve hot. It's not that hard, really. I once loved fries. Now I wish there were good alternatives. There aren't at most places.
Also- French fries are made out of potatoes. They are not flaked, extruded and plastic coated so they areCRISPY even after they are cold. BK, I'm talking to you.
Just got off the phone with the president of Brother Int. the printer company. We discussed their E36 M3ty business model of not including the needed USB cable in the box with the printer. I told the man that I had a Brother typewriter and then a Brother word processor and a few printers but I will never buy another Brother product if this is how they want to operate. He told me it was to cut cost. I asked just how much is a USB cable when you can leverage a million at a time. He didn't know. I informed him you can buy 500 on ebay for $0.50 a piece. I asked if raising the cost of a printer by a dollar would be that bad for business and if it was worth the hassle to customers who have to go out and buy a cable separately. He stammered. I don't think its his decision but left up to some number cruncher. Customer service isn't a bad thing. Doing that little bit to make their experience painless goes a long way to satisfaction. So does not having to talk to "Angie" in Mumbi who can only go by the script.
If I wasn't getting ink for $0.99 a pop for black I'd return the damn thing.
Oh and the permit office at the county building is a racket to get money for the state staffed by incompetent boobs.
I got ranted at yesterday after telling this lady's "berkeley trophy" to quit dropkicking a kickball at the front of my car.
She informed me that my car isn't new, and that if she wasn't on parole, she would've "berkeleyed my sorry E36 M3 up". There's a great lesson for your kids, only respect other people's property if it's new.
When I was a kid, we went to car shows and told they were like rolling museum exhibits. You didn't even breathe on someone's ride without a invitation, much less run your greasy, sticky, kid hands all over them. On the off chance someone was near their car and caught you gazing at it reverently, if they allowed you the chance to sit in the car, you thanked them profusely!
This is why I don't have nice things. 
Racer1ab wrote: .. and that if she wasn't on parole, she would've "berkeleyed my sorry E36 M3 up"...
Missed opportunity here... you could totally have bloodied your own nose as an alibi for the cops and kicked her right in the babymaker.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:Racer1ab wrote: .. and that if she wasn't on parole, she would've "berkeleyed my sorry E36 M3 up"...Missed opportunity here... you could totally have bloodied your own nose as an alibi for the cops and kicked her right in the babymaker.
And get thrown in jail for beating her ass with a pipe? I'll pass.
thank you to the lady in the publix parking lot for teaching your kid that not only is it cool to push the shopping cart across the lot to smash into someones truck but hop in the car real quick and drive away in case someone saw it. no wonder your car is a piece of E36 M3 as is you and your snot nosed soon to be criminal child. berkeley you
Just wanted to thank the clown and the folks that egged him on for ruining the Jag V12 thread. You lot couldn't just leave well enough alone could you? I thought we were better than that.
Situations like that are why some boards have volunteer moderators to police some of that crap and either move it or nip it in the bud. Oh well. The staff here do a great job and I'm sure they are trying to recover after the Challenge.
I'm sure the clown is a nice guy in person, but I really want to punch him in his red nose sometimes for coming across like such a smug jack ass in most of his posts.
OK. When I finally lose my mind and start killing, shooting, wrecking people, I want it recorded here who (whom?) to blame. The 3 berkleying morons that decided to go 3 wide on the interstate last night and effectively block all traffic flow. Nice move jerkoffs. 3 cars side by side in all the lanes and noone will move. And they aren't breaking any laws. And then today, again, 2 cars running 45 mph in a 55 zone side by side, mile after mile, just piling up cars behind them. This is starting to become a daily occurrence. And again, noone broke any laws. There seriously needs to be a way to deal with and stop these morons. It's only a matter of time before I hook one of these jerks and send him spinning. But then it's me who's the a hole and not them.
you're in NC... call the NCHP... I've seen them pull over and actually arrest people that do that... the law says " slower traffic keep right" road rage/wrecks result for stunts like that ... HP doesn't like either
Most of the time I'm on my way somewhere. By the time I make a call and a patrol car could respond, the situation would be over. I'd like to put a Go Pro incar camera in and get this crap on video. Sometimes I'm too far back to see plate numbers. Without any evidence, it's just my word against theirs. Those "slower traffic keep right" signs, well, I've seen one in the past two years, and darn few people around here ever do that. Left lane is usually full of cars and the right lane is empty.
give them the chrome horn! 
turboswede wrote: I'm sure the clown is a nice guy in person, but I really want to punch him in his red nose sometimes for coming across like such a smug jack ass in most of his posts.
He came across that way in person too.
I would like to find the person who invented this.... I hesitate to call it carpet, but that's what it's sold as, and salt their garden. Every freaking time I go to clean it, vacuum it, or even just get the broom to it I end up with what looks like the mother of all hairballs. It's as if a Saber-Toothed Tiger coughed one up.
It's also magically dirt-absorbing. I think you'd need a nuke to clean it. When I get a chance? Hardwood floors.
IT'S SHERBET, - SHERBERT IS NOT A REAL WORD
(sherbert) Ain't became a widely accepted non-word. Just sayin'. (sherbert)
FWD this email to ten other friends or you'll have ten years bad luck. Return this email to sender if you're really my friend, believe in Jesus as your Savior, blah, blah, blah
I can't believe my friends actually do this
Why????
So my dear old mum sent me a package in the post that happened to contain some walking shoes I'd left at her place over the summer (even though I told her a million times not to send them, thanks mum...) She even paid extra to send them air mail so that I'd get them in less than eight weeks, well, so the thinking was. I think the shipping cost was somewhere around $30.
Today I got a note from the German customs authority telling me that they'd opened my package and I have to go pick it up. They helpfully enclosed a slip where they evaluated my used walking shoes at 0.00 and determined I had to pay no taxes on them. FINE, right?
Well, NO, for the following reasons, which I will now iterate with lots of shouting and swearing:
1. My town of 160 000 is apparently not big enough to have a customs office, so I have to go pick up my shoes in a miniscule little farming village which is going to take me about TWO HOURS, TWO TRAINS, A BUS, AND A THIRTY MINUTE WALK THROUGH GOAT PASTURES TO REACH. I can reach anywhere in Berlin in half an hour but no, it can't go there because Berlin is a different state so instead it goes to this little podunk hamlet on the other side of the city? FOR BERKELEY'S SAKE WHY? That's going to cost me a day pass for the ENTIRE Berlin rail network because I have to travel into the city centre and out again to go to your little office in boonie-land!
2. I have 14 days to pick up my package. 14 CALENDER days, not business days, and of COURSE they're not open on the weekends or past 4:00 PM on Friday. The astute reader might note that today IS Friday. Hang on, that seems generous enough right?
3. Oh wait, I have 14 days from when THEY RECEIVED THE PACKAGE, not when I was notified that they HAD the package! Apparently I'm supposed to have berkeleying ESP.
4. THEY RECEIVED THE PACKAGE ON THE GODDAMN 28TH OF OCTOBER. I got the note TODAY, and they'd BACKDATED THE LETTER TO THE FREAKING 1ST to try and pretend they'd sent it earlier! Deutsche Post delivers letters overnight and it was postmarked yesterday! YOU SENT IT YESTERDAY AND ARE LYING TO MY FACE, hoping I won't notice!
5. Finally, THEY ARE CHARGINE ME STOORAGE FEES DAING BACK TO TGHE 28TH OF OCTOBR even though I had no way of knowing they had my package until they waityed a GODDAMN WEEK to to tell me about it, then LIED and pretended they told me earlier! HOW THE E36 M3 IS THIS EVEN LEGAL?
Reminder: they have already determined I have NO DUTY DUE, so they are just YANKING MY CHAIN BECAUSE THEY CAN.
Honestly, this is why I think we should just throw open all the borders everywhere and dispense with any kid of customs and immigration BS. Everyone thignks I'm a loon until E36 M3 like this happens to THEM... Yet here we are saddled with brilliant post-WW1 thinkng that is making life retarded for everyone and solvng no problems at all, which it never did in the first place! The fact of the matter is, someone in that office IS blowing their load RIGHT NOW at the though t of me having to waste nearly an entire DAY jumping through THEIR HOOPS to pickup MY SHOES! ...which my mum already paid a not insignificant sum to send quickly and directly to my door about four WEEKS AGO.
I think this is starting t oget a little incoherent, keep in midn I"m JUST calm enough to write about it... When I opened th e letter (which I found at 8:00 PM when I got home BTW, I went out at 11:00 this morning and it wasn't there yet) I literally was mad enough to shout at the empty room for about fifteen minutes straight. I would have ripped the envelope up but I want to shove it in their face on Monday and call them out on their backdating, a really insipid practice which is JUST RAMPANT over here anytime you're dealing with an organization who think they have power over you. I'm not the kind of guy to call for the execution of everyone involved in this ridiculous affair, but I sure wouldn't shed too many tears if it did happen... I'm just saying.
(Note: do not flounder this thread. I did once, but I think I got away with it. Seriously, we've had a bazillion threads discussing immigration already, this one is for ranting and raving, occasionally incoherently, and possibly while drunk.)
can you just tell 'em to keep the shoes ? tell you didn't order them and don't want them.... or will the storage fees keep adding up 'till you owe them the national debt ?
Dear auto makers,
Please stop using this
As your lighting design tool. Audi and Mercedes I am looking at you. You guys started it and now everyone else is copying it.
Seriously it looks so very cheap, As if you hired someone from APC to help cut costs.
Why is it so hard to find a Miata 01-04 with black interior, 5 speed, tape deck and NO LEATHER seats? Really don't want leather. I may have no choice though and will have to sell the stock leathers for something else.
For Jay:
I'll do you a favour. You have first bet. If I win, I get a caravan... and the boys get a pair of them shoes. If I lose... Oh berkeley it, I'll do the fight for free.
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