Meme Thread... no politics

In reply to akylekoz :

I took it to mean that the student was thinking that 1994 was so long ago, indeed back in the last millennium, for heaven's sake, that it must pre-date intelligent humanity and therefore be an invalid source. 

The prof, of course, would consider 1994 to be a year that he personally experienced and well remembers, and for that reason, the student's comment would make him feel old.

Edit:  Forgot this was the meme thread!

Noddaz said:

In reply to Duke :

Tell me that is not real.

It's not real.

[Actually, I have no idea if it is real or not.  Just trying to feel better about humanity.]

Duke said:

I can't get all my tires to 100%

bobzilla said:

Doubt that. At least the pistol is in a holster. These stupid knobs are what killed Anton Yelchin (new star treck Checkov). 

 

 

Factually incorrect, Mr. Yelchin was killed by the Monostable shifter, which was recalled in 2016 a few weeks prior to his death, which is a MUCH dumber and more confusing design. 

Hmm...

In reply to Apexcarver :

You know, if he had simply set his parking brake rather than rely on the park position in the transmission he'd probably still be alive. Direct connection or not, with the brake set the Jeep probably wouldn't have rolled back down the driveway. 

I teach my students never to use park to hold a car in place. Especially on a hill. It's not meant for that. The parking brake is.

We owned a 1986 Pontiac Grand AM SE - it was the second year of production.

The wheel wells started rusting after the 4th Chicago winter.  He duct taped that car for a reason.

David Elfering said:

akylekoz said:

GCrites said:

Noddaz said:

mtn said:

 

The shift knob is much safer than than the pistol carelessly placed in the center console.

Give that guy a break, he's got a Youtube video of him facing the camera and talking the entire time to make during the drive.

The dangerous one is the parking brake button, in some GM vehicles it will jam the brakes on while still moving.  Not sure but it may even shove it into park, it was too violent to attempt a second try.

So I take it it wasn't a rental 

1500 pages of memes

vwcorvette (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to Apexcarver :

You know, if he had simply set his parking brake rather than rely on the park position in the transmission he'd probably still be alive. Direct connection or not, with the brake set the Jeep probably wouldn't have rolled back down the driveway. 

...and there was no way the manufacturer could have predicted that anyone would relied on the park position of the transmission...

People actually use the parking brake?  I am convinced that it's a vestige of a bygone era and completely useless in a car equipped with an automatic transmission.  In good weather, I might apply it on a very, very steep incline, but never in the winter when it might freeze in the applied position and make driving the vehicle somewhat difficult.

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

Exactly!! I've had far too many problems where a parking brake on an automatic was applied and then needed torn apart to release. Especially with my used cars that I don't know the history of. Why we never valet park at hospitals too.

vwcorvette (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to Apexcarver :

You know, if he had simply set his parking brake rather than rely on the park position in the transmission he'd probably still be alive. Direct connection or not, with the brake set the Jeep probably wouldn't have rolled back down the driveway. 

I teach my students never to use park to hold a car in place. Especially on a hill. It's not meant for that. The parking brake is.

Here in Flatlandastan parking brakes are seldom used. I probably haven't used one more than a few hundred times in the last 45 years. Even my manual cars are frequently only using engine compression to hold them in place. You don't have to worry about rolling down a hill when there are no hills. 

1988RedT2 said:

People actually use the parking brake?  I am convinced that it's a vestige of a bygone era and completely useless in a car equipped with an automatic transmission.  In good weather, I might apply it on a very, very steep incline, but never in the winter when it might freeze in the applied position and make driving the vehicle somewhat difficult.

Every day, every time, in every car.

P3PPY said:

volvoclearinghouse said:

I get the whole intentionality thing, but still, my dad tells me when we were kids riding in grandpa's combine, grandpa leaned over to dad and said, "I'm sure glad we didn't run across any rabbits today"

Apparently it's obvious when that happens?? And not infrequent

EDIT, not a meme, but relevant

 

Mama rabbits can be kinda dumb when it comes to nesting their young... like in the middle of the yard... where you mow... and now burned into my memory... 

Unrelated meme...

tuna55 said:

1988RedT2 said:

People actually use the parking brake?  I am convinced that it's a vestige of a bygone era and completely useless in a car equipped with an automatic transmission.  In good weather, I might apply it on a very, very steep incline, but never in the winter when it might freeze in the applied position and make driving the vehicle somewhat difficult.

Every day, every time, in every car.

My driveway is on a hill.  For automatics, foot on brake, put car in neutral, set parking brake, foot off brake, to settle on the parking brake, foot back on brake, shift to park.  I have never had a parking brake freeze up on me, tends not to happen if it actually gets used frequently.  I cringe every time I have to shift my project car with an inoperable parking brake out of park, there is an obvious amount of force on the parking pawl, and I'm afraid someday it will fail.