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Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

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Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW
What? You don't want to drive a spider? SPECIESIST!

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW
Relax. Centauri is fine. :unsmith:

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

Das Volk posted:

The Rolls Royce Apartheid

Pretty sure that the Germans and South Africa still have better technologies than the UK..

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW
Just wait until they come with melanin sensors. Or perhaps you should brake, and break for the door. Oh god why is this soap made of marble?

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW
Rolled? Where we're slamming we wont need rolled. :psyduck:

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

InitialDave posted:

If people learn to make a firm yes/no decision and properly stand on the pedal until the car comes to a halt, you probably wouldn't hear a whole lot of drama about jammed throttles on autos or "unintended acceleration" in general.

Suicide is painless / it brings on many changes / And I can take or leave it if I please

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

Kenny Rogers posted:

I'll see, and raise.

:geno:

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

Kenny Rogers posted:

I forgot to mention. The body kits front and rear were so poorly attached to the rest of the car that they were flapping like an autistic kid.

How is that any different from a mid-90s to mid-00s Pontiac? :v:

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

Falken posted:

You know, the color and general styling makes me think this would fit in well as a supercar in the Halo universe.

Personally, I was thinking "Oh god another TMNT movie with Vanilla Ice?!"

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

some texas redneck posted:

Since when did we start allowing non-alphanumeric characters on a license plate? :psyduck:

Since when where SAAB owners required to play by the rules? I really dislike that color, though. It's like babyshit yellow-green metallic. :zombie:

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

Lamar Smith R-TX posted:

I hate the world. Nuke Florida please.

You are aware that tracking has been hosed for like a week, and will be through perpetuity, right?

SaNChEzZ posted:

Technically he's right, unless he didn't insure the package for the value of the part. He could have been a bit nicer about it though.

I've had some dumb bitch file a report against me earlier this week because she didn't get a USPS update in two days. Yep, it counts against my account because she's that loving retarded. Screw Florida, gently caress the world.

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

Lamar Smith R-TX posted:

We're now eight days past the estimated delivery date, eight days since the tracking has updated I guess you could say... IDK I really don't think this is just a regular everyday malfunction

That sounds like a standard USPS "poo poo its lost, maybe we'll find it", to be honest.


Lamar Smith R-TX posted:

How am I as the recipient supposed to even start the claims process? He used the "default" insurance on a USPS Ground package which is $500. I paid $550. He chose which carrier to use. He chose to send it USPS Ground. He has all the paperwork.

If it was sent priority w/o extra insurance, they're only on the tab for $50.

Lamar Smith R-TX posted:

Even thinking about it logically if he strapped my part to a donkey and whacked it on the rear end real hard how am I inheriting all of that liability? That sounds wrong to me.

Your only real ability is to file with USPS and try to stop payment or raise a flag somehow. I've got someone who is currently trying to weasel out of improperly packaging a rather rare and irreparable sign, but doesn't want to give me the money back for the neon coming out as shards. They DID insure it well, but packed it poorly, so USPS will probably end up loving me on that, too.

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

Wasabi the J posted:

My radiator shipped through USPS, it came with a huge gouge on it that just so happened to match the box-corner-shaped hole on the outside.

When I got two through FedEx, I had pristine boxes.

My former dealership NEON SIGN came via USPS. Well, at least the frame did. :downsgun:

The Midniter posted:

Basically they all suck and you're lucky if you get your poo poo in a timely, unmolested fashion.

Don't forget: "If you don't piss off the delivery guy, they won't use it as a projectile."

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

A Melted Tarp posted:

What's the backstory on this?

rscott posted:

If you haven't noticed there's been a lot of snow falling lately

Pretty much this. The East coast is perpetually hosed because there is frozen water all over the roads.

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

subx posted:

Also I've never heard of something being delivered to a neighbor, is that a normal thing?

I live a scant 20 miles from 'suburbia', and it is drat common out here. If it is a neighbor I get along with - they'll usually leave them a note and I'll leave it in the house, beside the door. This need not apply for areas where you don't know your neighbors' first names.

E: My present to myself for selling more Kindles just arrived. TX is getting a new chin spoiler. :dance:

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

Snowdens Secret posted:

Frozen water on the roads would not explain why computerized tracking isn't working.

"You expect me to scan this and report it when I pick it up? gently caress you, I can't drive faster than 15mph in the areas that WERE plowed."

No report - no poo poo about speed. Except for USPS. They just don't give a gently caress. Period.

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

Terrible Robot posted:

I'm willing to bet money it's just the latter. "Oh poo poo, snow is about to delay hundreds of thousands of packages, and I hate dealing with whiny assholes" *kicks power cord for tracking server* "Woops, problems with the network guys, you'll get your poo poo whenever don't call me"

I don't understand why you guys are so ready to kick the underlying LOGISTICS infrastructure to the curb when you know, its the driver who not only has to scan the poo poo, but stick it into the QUALLCOMMMZ port to have things uploaded and updated. I know drivers who intentionally didn't do this until end-of-day to avoid being pestered.

I'm also familiar enough with our local USPS folk to know that only one of the drivers bothers to scan things for pickup before returning to the mothership.

FedEx, though, seems to do things as they were told. :confused:

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

Snowdens Secret posted:

The destination driver not swiping the package as delivered isn't going to leave it showing on the wrong side of the country.

Well, no, but I was using USPS as a primary point for data. I have seen USPS take two days to show a pickup as occurring, but my gripe is primarily USPS based.

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

This commercial is quite accurate. You usually have to shift into second before the car begins to move because first is so loving short that it shouldn't have bothered to exist.

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

veedubfreak posted:

Does it still require 8000 rpms before it makes any power?

Look towards the upper right.

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

b0nes posted:

Porsche 959


Nah mate. Thats a Morgan. :downs:

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

kastein posted:

I think I could deal with cutting up the vehicles I listed every day to make them into really horrible cars for the dude, and I wouldn't even complain because getting paid that much to ruin PT Cruisers would be well worth it.

Hell, you'll do that now- for free. I'd love to see what sort of hi-jinks you'd get up to with deep pockets and virtually no responsibility. It'd probably end up like Davidsfarm. Only, less pedophilia.

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW
Tonight's the night, let's goop it up
I got my money, let's spend it up
Go out and bond it like oh my
Gosh
Bolt down that sofa, let's get, get on

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

LloydDobler posted:

drat this forum has a long memory. My last bad car delivery was 5 years ago, and I've only had one (good) delivery since. But yeah wtf with that truck.

Bucephalus posted.

He's like AI::HD2Ks ??::CrumFUNist.

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW
Our existing healthcare reform is loving awesome. The greedy fucks aren't getting a lot of money, so they're retiring early. The rest are just poo poo at their jobs. The only doctor who was approved for my surgery under OC? He's got SANCTIONS against him and lost his license in CT. No, I'm not going to have that guy slice me open. Yes, he is the only one both approved and accepting ObamaCare within a 200 mile radius.

Of course, now they can't gently caress me for a pre-existing condition, thank god, but lemme tell ya these current half-to-pay-for-own-insurance expenses are costing over a third of my just-to-live-and-pay-basic-bills, so that tacks on 33% on someone who isn't going to be cleared to work anytime soon. What the hell - it's only been over a loving year. I'm going to be completely destitute before I get back to work at this rate.

If I had never worked a day in my life? I'd be covered. If I was here under less-than-legal circumstances? I'd have had my surgery on the same day, rather than kicked to the curb and ignored hours after a traumatic brain injury. I wasn't even speaking out of monosyllabic words for several days afterwards. Oh, yeah, I shouldnt have been released. They shouldn't have ignored my cries for help from the pain due to the severe separation of my shoulder. They wouldn't even x-ray it until days later when I returned to the ER. They didn't want to deal with me, because they didn't see any money in it. I've been told this flat out by several hospital employees and private sector medical folks.

We need a lot of things reformed - we need to start by taking care of our loving citizens who give back. The often-praised these days socialism concepts still don't work if nobody works. :v:

NO OIL FOR BLOOD!

Viggen fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Apr 30, 2014

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

Seat Safety Switch posted:

I dunno, what's he got sanctions for?

Malpractice, of course. Operating on wrong parts, leaving people in worse shape AFTER surgery than before (that can be medically proven), doing a poo poo job which has left these people unable to resume life.

He's basically a shadetree with a scalpel (and a medical ASE :v:). I sure as gently caress wouldn't want me operating on anything larger than a sliver, would you?

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

Phone posted:

Hey viggen, it sucks that you got hit. But please stop making poo poo up, there's no Obamacare insurance company. I don't doubt that there are awful doctors in CT, but you just posted a bunch of stdh.txt.

Thank you for not paying attention and negating everything I said just because you feel the need to be a pompous rear end.

There IS a company which handles Obamacare, it is called "Amerigroup Solutions" here in Nevada. They are the feel-good name for Welfare. They have two plans, Welfare, and ObamaCare. Nobody here who accepts Amerigroup will accept the Obamacare Amerigroup. I know because I have loving contacted every single one of them.

If you don't like what I have to say, don't feel the need to refute it with your own madeup bullshit. Just put me on ignore and go back to your Miata hugbox, k?

anonumos posted:

All of this was prevalent under the pre-ACA system, as well. You are describing the ills of the healthcare system and then pinning the entire blame on "ObamaCare". I'm sorry you're having so much trouble getting treatment, but put the blame where it belongs.

It sure sucked then, too, but I had a choice of doctor who wouldn't see me. As a matter of fact, I praised Obamacare for giving me the option of even having insurance that MUST accept me, since this is now a pre-existing condition. I'm glad all of you with your rosey shades couldn't see that, but instead decided that I was attacking the whole loving thing.

It doesn't work, but it IS a bit better for those of us who are hosed and can't afford to do anything about it. Barely. A lot of stuff won't and is not covered. Period. They'll be happy to throw vicodin at me all day, but I wasn't even approved for the doctor who shouldn't be allowed near raw meat. Nope, it's still coming out of pocket.

Captain Trips posted:

More like West Sob Story.

An original quote from the Forums' famous denzien Captain Trips. :golfclap:


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Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

IOwnCalculus posted:

Healthcare is not terrible car stuff, you shitheads.

It can be if the airbags don't deploy. :haw:

Anyhow, I'm done. I'll endure a lot, but being told I am completely full of poo poo when I'm stuck living it, I won't tolerate. So, yeah.. anyhow:

Up for grabs is a Silverado that they only want $10k for. In Methville.



Just needs paint and shocks. [...] I have over a thousand in ac and $5k in lift.

That may be what you paid..

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

So THATs what Ram Jam was singing about!

Pretty much everything here. Keep clicking until you get to the Donks. Think that is around page 15. :w00t:

Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

Mr. Wiggles posted:

Ha. He bought those tires from a guy I work with, I believe.

There are soooooo many of those trucks kicking around Lyon county.

It really was kind of hard deciding on which one, but the text did it for me.

Also, this beauty in Phoenix (no pictures - just this):

2001 Saab 9-5 Aero - $2450 (1601 E Highland Ave, Unit 1185)

condition: fair

2001 Saab 9-5 sedan odometer: 186000 automatic transmission title : clean

2001 9-5 Aero, Red. 186,000 Mi. Fair Cond. Runs well. One owner. Will go Antique in a couple of years. Will definitely increase in value then. Eng. and Trans. in very good cond.

Uhhhh.. No. Not for a couple of years.

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Viggen
Sep 10, 2010

by XyloJW

Slavvy posted:

I've driven one of those. It was amazing, driving past watching people's interest-then-disappointment expressions.

yeah but how was the car though?

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