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

mad_machine said:

neighbors two houses behind me have a backyard that would give Sanford and Son a run for their money. Last count was three dead Mercedes and a Jeep, plus the usual junk piles, falling down deck, and rotting shed.  I think they are from Armenia and she barely speaks english and he is always off working. Somewhere in their backyard is a dying smoke detector and it's incessant beeping is slowly driving me mad.

 

That is not the worst of it. Two years ago the smoke detector system in my house malfunctioned and went off at 2 am. I could not shut it off except to pull the wires to the brain. It's since been fixed, but the dogs were extremely traumatized. Now whenever they hear that beep, they run and hide. Due to this, I cannot take them out into the backyard to do their thing, as soon as it beeps, they tuck tail and run for the door. I cannot get my point across to the wife, so I may need to do a 3am clandestine mission into their yard to find the beeping thing

Well, I am happy to say I did not have to do a thing. The wife obviously understood me more than I realized and must have gotten her husband out to find the beeping thing. Tonight when I got home from work, the beeping noise had been banished. The dogs are happy and the house no longer smells like pee

I am quickly discovering I do NOT have the patience needed to sell a bicycle on FB Marketplace.  The inane "Is this available?" messages being pushed to my phone at all hours is enough to convince me to delete the app.  Also, the even stupider "What's your bottom line/lowest/price?" messages have fully migrated over from CL.  The price is listed motherberkeleyer.  if you don't like it, make me a real offer, in person, with cash in hand.

Second time this month a guy from Ion Solar rings my doorbell and wants to sell me a system that, get this, "makes electricity from sunlight" for a few tens of thousands of dollars.  Yeah right. 

How about a nice windmill?

Lunatics!

Times like these I wish I lived in a gated community.  Grrrrrrr!

(not) WilD (Matt) said:

I am quickly discovering I do NOT have the patience needed to sell a bicycle on FB Marketplace.  The inane "Is this available?" messages being pushed to my phone at all hours is enough to convince me to delete the app.  Also, the even stupider "What's your bottom line/lowest/price?" messages have fully migrated over from CL.  The price is listed motherberkeleyer.  if you don't like it, make me a real offer, in person, with cash in hand.

That is the most annoying thing about Craigslist - trying to get me to negotiate against myself.  If you don't think my price is the best deal, then make me an offer and we'll go from there.  They don't respond to "what's your upper limit?  What's the highest amount you'll pay?"

wae said:

(not) WilD (Matt) said:

I am quickly discovering I do NOT have the patience needed to sell a bicycle on FB Marketplace.  The inane "Is this available?" messages being pushed to my phone at all hours is enough to convince me to delete the app.  Also, the even stupider "What's your bottom line/lowest/price?" messages have fully migrated over from CL.  The price is listed motherberkeleyer.  if you don't like it, make me a real offer, in person, with cash in hand.

That is the most annoying thing about Craigslist - trying to get me to negotiate against myself.  If you don't think my price is the best deal, then make me an offer and we'll go from there.  They don't respond to "what's your upper limit?  What's the highest amount you'll pay?"

Whatever it is I'm selling, my response is always "The lowest I'll go is the asking price in the ad until you come see it.  Then we can talk."

Toyman01 said:

100 miles from home and just lost OD. Hopefully the other 3 stay together because there is no cell service between here and there.

 

Maybe I better take the long way home.

So truck's in the shop. $1200 to rebuild the transmission. He's going to swap the seeping rear main while he's in there for another $45. The truck was on the lift 20 minutes after I dropped it off. I should have it back by Friday at the latest. 

SWMBO'S hacking and gagging for 5 BERKING WEEKS has finally come home to roost.  Now she's really sick. Your E36 M3ty remedies followed up by doing nothing at all about it didn't work just like I said it wouldn't.  Maybe next time you'll listen to me.

I'm sitting back and enjoying being smug in my smugness.

Life returned to its regularly scheduled E36 M3show in a hurry. 

1988RedT2 said:

Second time this month a guy from Ion Solar rings my doorbell and wants to sell me a system that, get this, "makes electricity from sunlight" for a few tens of thousands of dollars.  Yeah right. 

How about a nice windmill?

Lunatics!

Times like these I wish I lived in a gated community.  Grrrrrrr!

And when the grid goes down, the joke's on you! Your expensive fancy solar panels won't do jack for ya, because they feed power into the grid (which you get reimbursed for), not into your home's electrical system.

Local city council race is getting nasty already. Three seats up for vote, six people running. Two teams of three are running as a "slate". It is basically young versus old (but not boomers versus millenials). The older folks (illegally) flyered mailboxes saying "the city needs adult leadership", and then sent their minions around town to yank down all the young folks campaign signs. Childish tactics from childish people.

In reply to slefain :

When I think of old people in politics, I always go back to thinking about Congress trying to ask Zuckerberg what BookFaces is and how it works.

I just listened to two customers talking at work, and one of them seriously said to the other "Oh, you're having problems with your Chevy? Guess you should have bought a GMC." He was not joking. God, are people really that berkeleying dumb?

To all the people that constantly whine about how they just love the changes in seasons and how they could never live anywhere that has warm weather year-round because they just love the changes in the seasons:  Here's the thing that you don't realize.  Three of those seasons suck.

This message brought to you by the fact that I've got to run out and winterize the RV tonight.

NickD said:

I just listened to two customers talking at work, and one of them seriously said to the other "Oh, you're having problems with your Chevy? Guess you should have bought a GMC." He was not joking. God, are people really that berkeleying dumb?

Distant acquaintance of mine asks for new car advice. I tell her go buy an Elantra or Forte, either suited her needs and budget. Refused to look at a Kia or Hyundai as her father would only co-sign for a " 'Murican" car. She bought a Dart instead. I just shake my head ruefully now...

In reply to NickD :

I'd be nice and say uninformed.  My wife hates anything remotely connected to Hyundai, thanks to a Sonata she had in the mid 90's.  Guess what our last SUV was, a Kia Sorrento.. I didn't have the heart to tell her it was a Hyundai in drag, i even hid replacement parts from her because they came in a Hyundai box.  TLDR.. Yes, people are dumb..

In reply to slefain :

Should have taken her to the Kia plant in West Point, Georgia.  Or the Hyundai plant in Alabama..  That Dart was probably made in Mexico, should show her the vin plate to make her head explode.. 

EDIT: Just looked it up on the Wiki.. The Dart was made at the Belvedere plant in Illinois and was built in China until 2017..  Not made anywhere now. 

wae said:

To all the people that constantly whine about how they just love the changes in seasons and how they could never live anywhere that has warm weather year-round because they just love the changes in the seasons:  Here's the thing that you don't realize.  Three of those seasons suck.

This message brought to you by the fact that I've got to run out and winterize the RV tonight.

Sarcastically quoted by a guy that enjoys pond hockey.

There are only 2 true seasons: motorcycle season and hockey season. Everything else is simply waiting. 

All the time at lowes trying to find the right reducers to put the old gas line on the new stove.
All the care putting the new stuff on.
Gently pushing the stove back so as not to kink the copper or mess anything up


So of course the probably 40+ year old flare fails and now I have to remember where the hell my flaring tool is.

Appleseed said:

wae said:

To all the people that constantly whine about how they just love the changes in seasons and how they could never live anywhere that has warm weather year-round because they just love the changes in the seasons:  Here's the thing that you don't realize.  Three of those seasons suck.

This message brought to you by the fact that I've got to run out and winterize the RV tonight.

Sarcastically quoted by a guy that enjoys pond hockey.

There are any 2 true seaons: motorcycle season and hockey season. Everything else is simply waiting. 

FYI, Light The Lamp Brewery in Grayslake is having a pond-hockey tournament. I think it is in January. 

NickD said:

I just listened to two customers talking at work, and one of them seriously said to the other "Oh, you're having problems with your Chevy? Guess you should have bought a GMC." He was not joking. God, are people really that berkeleying dumb?

06HHR said:

I'd be nice and say uninformed.  My wife hates anything remotely connected to Hyundai, thanks to a Sonata she had in the mid 90's.  Guess what our last SUV was, a Kia Sorrento.. I didn't have the heart to tell her it was a Hyundai in drag, i even hid replacement parts from her because they came in a Hyundai box.  TLDR.. Yes, people are dumb..

Further proof that perception is everything and reality is nothing.

Unfortunately.

FuzzWuzzy said:

In reply to slefain :

When I think of old people in politics, I always go back to thinking about Congress trying to ask Zuckerberg what BookFaces is and how it works.

That's how you get gems like this too:

It's Virginia.

I wouldn't put anything past the Virginia punitive legal system.

Duke said:

It's Virginia.

I wouldn't put anything past the Virginia punitive legal system.

 

It's been said that you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet.

http://www.cityofchesapeake.net/Government/City-Departments/Departments/Police-Department/crime_prevention/halloween.htm

"Chesapeake Police staff will focus on making sure the evening is safe for everyone, not actively seeking out violations of the time or age limits. For example, a 15 year old safely trick or treating with a younger sibling is not going to have any issues. That same child taking pumpkins from porches and smashing them in the street more likely will. The City’s trick-or-treat ordinance was updated in 2019 when City Council voted to remove the (never before used) penalty of jail time and to raise the age limit to 14, making it one of the least restrictive ordinances in all of Hampton Roads.

 Thank you for your help making it a fun night for everyone!"

The fact that laws like this even get passed is part of our problem.  I'm pretty sure VA already had laws against trespassing, loitering, theft, littering and vandalism.  Any of these could be used to address the above described behavior.

But it's much easier to pass another law that criminalizes normal behavior, and say "well, we won't use against anyone not behaving badly".  Until they do.

1988RedT2 said:

Duke said:

It's Virginia.

I wouldn't put anything past the Virginia punitive legal system.

 

It's been said that you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet.

http://www.cityofchesapeake.net/Government/City-Departments/Departments/Police-Department/crime_prevention/halloween.htm

"Chesapeake Police staff will focus on making sure the evening is safe for everyone, not actively seeking out violations of the time or age limits. For example, a 15 year old safely trick or treating with a younger sibling is not going to have any issues. That same child taking pumpkins from porches and smashing them in the street more likely will. The City’s trick-or-treat ordinance was updated in 2019 when City Council voted to remove the (never before used) penalty of jail time and to raise the age limit to 14, making it one of the least restrictive ordinances in all of Hampton Roads.

 Thank you for your help making it a fun night for everyone!"

Oooooooooh, so they get points for finally deleting a berking stupid clause in their berking overwritten Draconian Virginia code.

That doesn't change the fact that it was previously  WRITTEN AND PASSED with berking jail time for inappropriate trick-or-treating in the law.

Sorry for sounding bitter, but every experience I've ever had in Virginia is like the entire state is governed by a giant Home Owners Association committe run by the oldest, crankiest busybodies they could find.