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14 INCH DETECTIVE posted:Interesting car came in earlier, beat to hell 4 door civic with BEER $3 a pint painted on the rear window with 2 tapped kegs in the back seat and I can't imagine there's any way at all that could go wrong. Me and officer Rabbit are going to stand here while you two drink the whole keg.
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kastein posted:Me and officer Rabbit are going to stand here while you two drink the whole keg. The Beerfest/Super Troopers crossover we've been waiting for. 
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Sep 16, 2013 03:01
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Am I the only one who thinks that movie would have been way better if the whole thing had just been the cops loving with people like the first 10 minutes? That was the only really great part about that movie, and it kind of made me want to be a cop.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:That was the only really great part about that movie You're wrong, Bearfucker is a genuine goddamned cinema treasure and it's pretty late in the film.
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Sep 16, 2013 16:36
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That whole movie is golden, from the syrup chugging all the way through to bearfucker.
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Sep 16, 2013 19:07
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Agreed, we'll see if #2 can keep that magic alive (probably not: their other movies pretty universally suck).
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Jared592 posted:Agreed, we'll see if #2 can keep that magic alive (probably not: their other movies pretty universally suck). Wait, wut? Super Troopers 2?
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kastein posted:Passenger car tires take muscle? poo poo, I must be a regular weight lifting champion, because I thought anything 225/75r15 and under was a one finger job. How the hell can anyone carry groceries or children if they can't pick up some dinky rear end car tire/rim or at least the donut spare? Almost every motorcycle out there comes with instructions on how to adjust and lube the chain. Huge number of people don't do it themselves, because it's an annoying messy job to do. I wouldn't make fun of them for that. Not knowing how to use the blinkers or to check your blind spot, that would be retarded, you have to know how to do that to drive safely. Car noobs are people too. Stop the hate, bros.
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Sep 16, 2013 20:10
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Again, you're coming at this from a very specific perspective. You're a guy, you're a car enthusiast, you're a mechanic. You think the average waitress or cubicle worker is comfortable crawling under a car to put a jack in there, has any idea where it should go, and has the muscle to loosen lugnuts? On the side of the road having probably never done it before? This to me is like teaching yourself to sew to make a few new t-shirts. Why do it, when there's a well-developed infrastructure out there that makes it cheap and easy to get it done for you? Having worked full-time as a mechanic i can fully understand why people don't want to work on cars or even change a flat tyre. Given the choice between calling a tow truck and having to change a flat on the hard shoulder of a motorway i think i'd rather make a call and have someone drive me and the car home.
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Sep 16, 2013 21:30
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What about the person who came in to get their car serviced and asked if we could get them a rental car in the meantime and is sitting up front arguing for about 15 minutes now over why we can't rent them a car from Enterprise if they don't have a valid driver's license of any kind?
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Sep 16, 2013 22:23
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..and how about those pussies and their blue neoprene gloves, huh? Sepsis is natures' way of telling you to work better. 
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Sep 16, 2013 22:25
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lavaca posted:That's still the old version. It looks like this now: Is it any worse than this? I live in this shot here. Rush hour is horrific.  At least everybody here is so passive that you can basically get anywhere quickly as long as things are moving. 2 mile long line in the left lane? Right lane closed? Hang the right lane til the LAST second and people will happily wave you in. In Philly everybody would be playing chicken right til the last second.
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Sep 16, 2013 22:28
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My wife knows how to change a tyre. She'll probably never do so but come the zombie apocalypse she'll know how.
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Sep 16, 2013 22:28
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I only wear nytrile gloves so that I can coat the insides with baby oil and by the time I get home at the end of the day it feels like i'm using a baby seal to whack it with.
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14 INCH DETECTIVE posted:What about the person who came in to get their car serviced and asked if we could get them a rental car in the meantime and is sitting up front arguing for about 15 minutes now over why we can't rent them a car from Enterprise if they don't have a valid driver's license of any kind? I've had a similar experience:  Do you have a courtesy car for while mine is being repaired? No, sorry. Why not? Well, this is a two-man operation, we're not a dealer, we don't supply courtesy cars. Can i use your car then? No, of course not.Customers can be cheeky c*nts sometimes. Use my car? No, you can gently caress right off.
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Sep 16, 2013 22:40
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Mooseykins posted:I've had a similar experience: Last time I went to a small shop, the mechanic drove me, in my own car, to the reasonably nearby LRT station. I thought that was a good way to handle it, assuming your city has decent public transit. Also, you can say 'oval office' here. Starring out one letter doesn't really do anything.
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PT6A posted:Last time I went to a small shop, the mechanic drove me, in my own car, to the reasonably nearby LRT station. I thought that was a good way to handle it, assuming your city has decent public transit. I usually offer that, but bus stops were literally 100 feet away, and we were a quater of a mile from the nearest Tube (Subway) station. Also, after asking to use my car while theirs was having some minor repair carried out was a fairly good indication of their piss-taking nature. I later on fired that customer over other unreasonable demands. PT6A posted:Also, you can say 'oval office' here. Starring out one letter doesn't really do anything. Oh, well in that case, cuuuuuuunts.
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Sep 16, 2013 23:05
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This is probably my favorite WTF intersection in seattle Yup, that is a 6 way stop, and is super busy since it is the best way to get on/off 99 at queen anne. The right lane of SB 99 gets blocked since traffic backs up on Raye, and its not uncommon to have 6th Ave backed up all the way under 99 with people trying to get on NB 99.
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Sep 16, 2013 23:43
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Mooseykins posted:I usually offer that, but bus stops were literally 100 feet away, and we were a quater of a mile from the nearest Tube (Subway) station. Also, after asking to use my car while theirs was having some minor repair carried out was a fairly good indication of their piss-taking nature. I later on fired that customer over other unreasonable demands. I'm very lucky - the closest shop of any kind is a specialist in my classic car (MG), owned by an ex-rally driver, so they can understand driving a car hard, and they provide courtesy cars free.
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Blaise posted:Is it any worse than this? I live in this shot here. Rush hour is horrific. Ugh, it's you! I hate it when people do this. The only time it's acceptable is when someone is willing to block traffic by waiting for an impossible left at Latona instead of going a block further and using the left turn lane. Negromancer posted:This is probably my favorite WTF intersection in seattle The worst thing about this intersection is that even though Queen Anne has no traffic lights and is all stop signs, maybe 10% of the people who drive there understand what a stop sign is and who has right of way. The best thing about this intersection is that you can always bypass some of the backup by taking the secret 7th street that connects with it. That intersection is a loving mess.
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Sep 17, 2013 02:23
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How many Marinites do we have here anyway? I grew up in San Rafael and enjoy abusing the roads around Mt. Tam during the week when there are fewer drivers.
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Mooseykins posted:Customers can be cheeky c*nts sometimes. Use my car? No, you can gently caress right off. One guy wants to buy a bike. Not a real nice bike, we're not making a lot of money on it. Didn't have all the money, so he's like can I have it for $300 off? No. Sighs frustratedly as if I just lost his keys or something. Puts some money down, tries the same question again later before paying it off. No. Sighs frustratedly as if I just lost his keys. Comes in a couple times asking if he can just take it and he'll owe us the rest. No. Told him several times that's not an option. Sighs frustratedly as if I just lost his keys. Asks if he can leave his [beat up piece of poo poo] bicycle as collateral. No. Sighs frustratedly as if I just lost his keys. Says one of our guys said that would be ok. No. None of our guys would or did ever say that. Sighs frustratedly as if I just lost his keys. Asks if he can buy a helmet and return after riding it home because he doesn't want to actually buy one of our already very cheap helmets. No. Sighs frustratedly as if I just lost his keys. Eventually shows up with the shittiest possible used craigslist helmet and pays the bike off and takes it.
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It's poo poo like that I'm glad I don't deal directly with customers...
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Vindolanda posted:I'm very lucky - the closest shop of any kind is a specialist in my classic car (MG), owned by an ex-rally driver, so they can understand driving a car hard, and they provide courtesy cars free. Well that's a major inscentive for me to not provide a courtesy car. You know the joke about the fastest car in the world being a rental car? Well courtesy cars fall under the same treatment, so i don't want to pay for a courtesy car for people to bomb around in and generally not give a gently caress about. You see how they treat their own cars, they'll be even less caring and mechanically-sympathetic to one they don't own. My car wants for nothing, is meticulously cared for (aside from washing, it's always dirty) and maintaned, the interior is cleaned all the time and is in perfect condition. It's already a fairly unusual and rare car due to its spec, there's no way i'll lend it to a customer to use. Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:The ones that we get all the time are dudes just walking in the door asking for a discount. Never seen em before, not buying anything in bulk, often showing up 30 minutes to closing with no appointment so we're doing them a favor by changing their tire anyway. Not buying the tire from us. Do they do that everywhere in life? Walk into every Starbucks, be like, hey can I have 2 bucks off on this latte? Ask a girl out on a date, be like, hey can I have a blowjob too? I used to get that all the time, especially when i ran a tyre store. Everyone wanted a discount, can you do a better price? What if i buy two? The place down the road is cheaper! That's not what i was quoted on the phone! But i don't have that much, can't you make it cheaper? etc.. I had one who kept coming in buying used tyres, a real poo poo driver who seemed to slam a kerb on a weekly basis, take out a sidewall and ask me to repair it. Err.. it has a fist-sized hole in it.. He also wanted to haggle on every one, and they were cheap as it was. This was on top of always turning up around/after closing time and being a dick trying to get me and my staff to do his tyres then, at 7pm, after working all day. No, gently caress off, we're going home. Well, in the end he complained that we ran out of used tyres in his size, which was down to him having bought them all already. Needed two tyres, priced them up at £112.80. "What? That's too much, can't you do them cheaper?" "Sure i can. How about this, you can have two for £112.80, or you can have one for £56.40! That's half price!" He wasn't impressed, i didn't give a poo poo. He didn't buy the tyres and never came back. One less timewaster. Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:One guy wants to buy a bike. Not a real nice bike, we're not making a lot of money on it. Didn't have all the money, so he's like can I have it for $300 off? No. Sighs frustratedly as if I just lost his keys or something. Puts some money down, tries the same question again later before paying it off. No. Sighs frustratedly as if I just lost his keys. Comes in a couple times asking if he can just take it and he'll owe us the rest. No. Told him several times that's not an option. Sighs frustratedly as if I just lost his keys. Asks if he can leave his [beat up piece of poo poo] bicycle as collateral. No. Sighs frustratedly as if I just lost his keys. Says one of our guys said that would be ok. No. None of our guys would or did ever say that. Sighs frustratedly as if I just lost his keys. Asks if he can buy a helmet and return after riding it home because he doesn't want to actually buy one of our already very cheap helmets. No. Sighs frustratedly as if I just lost his keys. Eventually shows up with the shittiest possible used craigslist helmet and pays the bike off and takes it. Yep, sounds pretty familiar too! I honestly wonder if those people go into the supermarket and ask for discounts on their groceries or ask if they can take them home and eat them, then pay next week, sometime, possibly, maybe, at some point, kinda.
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Mooseykins posted:Well that's a major inscentive for me to not provide a courtesy car. You know the joke about the fastest car in the world being a rental car? Well courtesy cars fall under the same treatment, so i don't want to pay for a courtesy car for people to bomb around in and generally not give a gently caress about. You see how they treat their own cars, they'll be even less caring and mechanically-sympathetic to one they don't own. I didn't mean to give the impression that I was referring to clutch-drops, doughnuts and gallons of tyresmoke, in the MG world in Britain "driving hard" means not always parking under cover as soon as rain hits you, or driving every day. Some specialist garages won't touch the car if they think you're not keeping it in a temperature controlled garage, and refuse to do things like undercoating because "you shouldn't drive in the rain anyway". These cars are basically meant to be cheap Jagternatives, but people act as though the Midlands was some kind of nirvana, and each car a delicate droplet from heaven that must be nurtured and preserved in a reliquary.
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This is about the worst we have in Adelaide: The Britannia Roundabout. Its a 5 way, two lane roundabout, with a loving forest in the middle of it! The biggest issue is the two roads in the North west corner- You cant see the traffic coming from the western approach because its so far over your shoulder you nearly need to stick your head out the window to see. They do use the NW corner as part of the V8 supercar circuit though, hence the rumble striping.
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Mooseykins posted:Well that's a major inscentive for me to not provide a courtesy car. You know the joke about the fastest car in the world being a rental car? Well courtesy cars fall under the same treatment, so i don't want to pay for a courtesy car for people to bomb around in and generally not give a gently caress about. You see how they treat their own cars, they'll be even less caring and mechanically-sympathetic to one they don't own. I must be the polar opposite of that... I get on quite well with the dealer I bought my motorbike from (they've only got 5 staff), and last time I dropped it off for a service, I got their shitheap of a loan bike, took it home, and killed a few hours washing it, cutting all the scratches out of the paint, polishing it, and waxing it. I also replaced several blown globes, polished the windscreen and instrument cluster faces, adjusted and lubed the chain, and adjusted the clutch. Got it back there and they nearly fell over. Couldn't believe it was the same bike... As a result, the owner has told me that I have the pick of their demonstrator bikes as a loaner next time mine is in there, and I got a bunch of small parts I needed for free. Swings and roundabouts, I suppose. Ferremit posted:This is about the worst we have in Adelaide: I lived in Adelaide for about 18 months and loving hated that roundabout. The first time I drove through it, I was relieved that I got through OK and while making a mental note to avoid it in the future, I promptly t-boned a car (in my then-partner's R34 Skyline GT-R, no less) that pulled out of one of the side streets on Fullarton Rd without stopping. Now I live in Perth, and stare in amazement at the insane tailgating that goes on... Bass Ackwards fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Sep 17, 2013 |
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metaxus posted:I must be the polar opposite of that... I get on quite well with the dealer I bought my motorbike from (they've only got 5 staff), and last time I dropped it off for a service, I got their shitheap of a loan bike, took it home, and killed a few hours washing it, cutting all the scratches out of the paint, polishing it, and waxing it. I also replaced several blown globes, polished the windscreen and instrument cluster faces, adjusted and lubed the chain, and adjusted the clutch.
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All of them at the same time, but I have dinner at 7 so if you don't mind having one back before then that'd be great thanks. (what's up bringing it back in better condition than you found it in buddy  )
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Mooseykins posted:Well that's a major inscentive for me to not provide a courtesy car. You know the joke about the fastest car in the world being a rental car? Well courtesy cars fall under the same treatment, so i don't want to pay for a courtesy car for people to bomb around in and generally not give a gently caress about. You see how they treat their own cars, they'll be even less caring and mechanically-sympathetic to one they don't own. The last two courtesy cars I was given were a 2001 95 3.0 V6t  with 150,000 miles in late 2009. The electric seats didn't work, but everything else was awesome.. except for the turbo lag and 18mpg city I averaged in it.The other one was a 1991 9000T hatch (in 2010), with electrical tape covering virtually every light on the console, but they were so bright that they blinked enough to spark an impromptu rave in the early evening.. or perhaps that was the at least two broken mounts between the engine and transmission rather than percussion, and a very untrustworthy 3rd - with a whole 70,000 miles on it. What really annoys me is the number of stupid Mopar owners with the "Always On" DRLs that idiot drivers have no ideas that they can:
Every 90s import owner with fake HIDs rattling around loosely like some lazy eyed bitch. gently caress them too.
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Yeah, a shakey headlight behind me is the thing I hate the most on the road. It's nauseating.
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West SAAB Story posted:What really annoys me is the number of stupid Mopar owners with the "Always On" DRLs that idiot drivers have no ideas that they can: Or the motherfuckers driving around with 1 low beam and the high beams on. Motherfucker I CAN SEE YOUR LAZINESS.
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Seattleites coming out of the woodwork posted:
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Fucknag posted:Or the motherfuckers driving around with 1 low beam and the high beams on. Motherfucker I CAN SEE YOUR LAZINESS. People who don't know how to put their loving headlights in are the loving worst. loving assholes have their "low" beams as high as their high beams should be, blinding everyone on the road. I especially love it when you flash your beams at them to try to get them to turn off what you hope are high beams only to watch the full glory of their lights as they go to their "high" mode. EDIT: People in high cars seems to be the worst about this.
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For some reason it never occurred to me that you could stick your lows in your highs and vice-versa. I figured they'd use different sizes to prevent people from screwing that up.
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He means the low beam is so out of whack that it's already high, and high beam is just a joke. Related, can someone please explain to people that, if I give way to your oncoming lane at night, don't flash your high beams at my face to say "thanks".
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I drive a low rear end E30 and it seems like every 3rd vehicle is a lifted bro truck here in Kansas. I HATE driving at night because of this. I have lovely night vision as it is and all the lights shining directly into my eyes or worse through my back window and into my rear view mirror drives me nuts. I'm sure the glare and poo poo from all the rock chips in my wind shield aren't doing me any favors in this regard but still, god drat.
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InitialDave posted:He means the low beam is so out of whack that it's already high, and high beam is just a joke. I call those airplane spotting lights. What really gets me is how many of my friends (including ones who are actual auto enthusiasts) take the "lol who cares why do you bother to aim your headlights" approach to things. I just don't understand it, to the point that I've actually adjusted people's headlights for them so they lit up the road instead of the left headlight hitting the ground about 30 feet in front of the right side of the car and the right headlight being great for reading street signs (you know, the ones on giant support structures 20 feet over the highway.) Aim your drat headlights people. They light things up better when they point at what they're supposed to illuminate.
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kastein posted:I call those airplane spotting lights. Yes, this is exactly the point I was making. Aim your loving headlights down like you're supposed to, especially the one facing oncoming traffic. Also, tell your friends that they literally cause accidents because they BLIND PEOPLE because they're too damned lazy to aim their headlights. InitialDave posted:He means the low beam is so out of whack that it's already high, and high beam is just a joke. High beam with these people must be hailing UFOs or something.
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I would love to start a public service campaign reminding people to turn off their "douche light", or rear fog light.  I'm a pretty laid-back guy when it comes to people pulling stupid poo poo on the road, but being behind people running these things just makes me stabby as gently caress. Goddamnit, just looking at this picture in preview is pissing me off.
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