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

Appleseed said:

dculberson said:

Cotton said:

Stefan said:

In reply to Appleseed :

There's like 8 different threads about it.  So STFU already.

A mod should merge them all.

Last I counted there were four. Four. One is the original started by a forum member, one associated with the GRM news post, and two dupes. There are two active threads about the LFX, a decade plus old engine. We're not a focused bunch. Is it really a hardship to scroll past two superfluous threads about the tesla truck?

Truth told: I made one simply to mess with Stefan.

Thanks, shiny happy person.

between here, Reddit and Facebook I couldn't avoid it and it's still continuing.

I hate 6am shifts.. the last two days were early mornings with mandatory OT to the tune of 12 hour days. I am exhausted, but I can't go to bed yet and if I nap, I won't fall asleep later.

In reply to Stefan :

Why do you care so much?

I thought about making another Tesla truck thread the other days because I am also a bit of an shiny happy person. 

Parents with twins: if you're going to be dropping off your identical twins for someone else to watch, at least dress them differently. Give us a chance. 
 

dculberson said:

In reply to Stefan :

Why do you care so much?

He's just venting about something he doesn't like. We are still allowed to do that. It is the rant thread after all.

Wally said:

I thought about making another Tesla truck thread the other days because I am also a bit of an shiny happy person. 

I did have a thought pertaining to the execrable SUV threads. Something along the lines of will Bathurst/BTÇC be fielded with these things when all the sedans are gone? 

dculberson said:

In reply to Stefan :

Why do you care so much?

Because it just got under my skin.

the truck itself, like much of Musk's products are cool, but just the bullE36 M3 that spewed forth from seemingly everywhere.

and I come here where things are generally less "fanboi-ish" and I find several threads about that damned truck and I'd just had it.

i mean after two threads about a dead famous person, we tend to self-correct, but 4 threads?  All of them obviously titled?  We can do better and it makes the discussion less effective in the long run.

There's a lot of bad things that hide behind this smile.

The wheels you don't have a car for thread reminded me.  Why do manufacturers feel the need to have so many different lug patterns?  4x100, 4x108, 4x110, and 4x114.  Repeat at 5 lug, and 6, and 8.  Ford even felt the need to make a 7 berkeleying lug wheel for a while!

Would it really be so hard to just have one size per lug count?  shiny happy persons. 

I always wondered at the engineering rationalebehind the different lug patters.

Obligatory rant: berkeley headlice

KyAllroad (Jeremy) said:

Why do manufacturers feel the need to have so many different lug patterns?  4x100, 4x108, 4x110, and 4x114.  Repeat at 5 lug, and 6, and 8.  Ford even felt the need to make a 7 berkeleying lug wheel for a while!

Would it really be so hard to just have one size per lug count?  shiny happy persons. 

Honestly, given how difficult it seems to be to get actual parameters nailed down for an engineering department to design things to meet, it's remarkable that there are so few different lug patterns.

The above is also my rant.

KyAllroad (Jeremy) said:

The wheels you don't have a car for thread reminded me.  Why do manufacturers feel the need to have so many different lug patterns?  4x100, 4x108, 4x110, and 4x114.  Repeat at 5 lug, and 6, and 8.  Ford even felt the need to make a 7 berkeleying lug wheel for a while!

Would it really be so hard to just have one size per lug count?  shiny happy persons. 

Try being a lucky person who has a 4x140 bolt pattern and 13" wheels. The old school Subaru (Loyale, DL, GL, RX, XT, BRAT) all came with a 4x140 bolt pattern and were only equipped from the factory with the 13" wheels. The only other vehicle to have that bolt pattern was a Peugeot 405, which did have 14" and !5" steel and alloy wheels. So, if you wanted to put 14" or 15" wheels on your Loyale to get better tire options, you had to hunt down a set of Peugeot wheels with the corresponding Pugnuts as they were called, because apparently Peugeot wheels have a weird seat for the lugnuts on the wheels that only Peugeot used.

Apparently the Tesla truck has 200,000 pre-orders for a truck that isn't even in production yet.

But thanks to that, it sure as E36 M3 will be now!


Ties back in to a discussion we've had before about what people "earn"...Co-worker was telling me about how his wife "earned" going to Disneyworld to go to the Harry Potter ride thing. She earned it because she went on a 6am flight? She then paid some obscene amount of money just to get in, but then threw down another $150 for an Express pass, but still had to wait at least an hour and a half because it doesn't work on popular new rides.

I really want/need to start my own business doing something, just so I won't have co-workers anymore.

In reply to NickD :

oh my god, Pugnuts is hilarious.

My rant is that it's Monday and I couldn't get to sleep until almost 3 AM and today is gonna suck.

I spent an entire Sunday prepping for and applying spray foam insulation to a room in my house. Then woke up at 3am to the sound of some critter vigorously chewing on something. I sure hope it isn't my spray foam! And I hope I can get the critter. Mouse I'm sure, and I think (hope!) it might be in the attic while the spray foam is in the basement.

For the past few holiday seasons at work we've had some of our museum buses put into service on nice days. The customers like them, the drivers like them, and we'd get a little bit of positive covering the news for once. This year they've been cut due to budget concerns. 
 

Holy E36 M3. I didn't realize adding the word "engagement" to a ring search would take it from challenge money to mobile home money. 

slowbird said:

In reply to NickD :

oh my god, Pugnuts is hilarious.

My rant is that it's Monday and I couldn't get to sleep until almost 3 AM and today is gonna suck.

SWMBO pissed me off so bad yesterday I didn't go to sleep. I've been up since 10:30 am. 

Yesterday.

RevRico said:

Holy E36 M3. I didn't realize adding the word "engagement" to a ring search would take it from challenge money to mobile home money. 

Everything about the engagement/marriage industry is a scheme to extract money from your pocket.  Just buy whatever ring you like that fits your budget.  The "engagement" ring I bought my wife cost $200.  I was young and poor, but still wouldn't spend a whole lot more if I were to do it over again today.

In reply to (not) WilD (Matt) :

I, too, spent around $200 for an engagement ring and I think another $150 for the actual band.

Married in a courthouse, then went next door to the beach for pictures. "Reception" at her grandparent's swanky house right after.

Her "best" friend spent over $10k for her wedding/reception. Neither had good jobs. Both were/are living at home with their parents. Divorced a year later.

Screw the marriage industry.

(not) WilD (Matt) said:

RevRico said:

Holy E36 M3. I didn't realize adding the word "engagement" to a ring search would take it from challenge money to mobile home money. 

Everything about the engagement/marriage industry is a scheme to extract money from your pocket.  Just buy whatever ring you like that fits your budget.  The "engagement" ring I bought my wife cost $200.  I was young and poor, but still wouldn't spend a whole lot more if I were to do it over again today.

I spent more than challenge money on a ring. Would probably do it again today, but only because I get down rabbit holes and learn too much about them. I got really good at recognizing faults in rocks, which is a pointless skill to have. I recommend getting a CZ, or whatever non-diamond she likes. Nobody else needs to know, and nobody else cares. Those that do care, you don't want those people in your life (I care only about my wife's ring, all others - if they make the wearer happy, good for me). 

EDIT: If you do get a diamond, don't go to a mall or a jewelry store. Find out where your local-ish Jewelers row is, and find a wholesaler. Google will help. There won't be a storefront, it'll be an office or an apartment, you'll get buzzed in and there will be 5 locks on the door. A guy behind a desk, probably the owner (and a 90% chance this person owns a yarmulke, 30% chance he's wearing one) will ask what you want and how much you want to spend. He'll go to a safe behind the desk, open it, pull a file out of it, in the file is a manilla envelope, in that are smaller ones or ziplock bags. He'll pull the diamond out of there to show you. If he doesn't have what you're looking for, he'll show you the same thing just bigger/more expensive, then get the size that you can afford ordered for you. 

It's amazing to me how many folks put more emphasis on the wedding than they do the marriage, and that says a lot about their priorities for the relationship.

Rodan said:

It's amazing to me how many folks put more emphasis on the wedding than they do the marriage, and that says a lot about their priorities for the relationship.

 

Mostly MoB's. I just wanted family there. She wanted it fancy. Fine, if you can't come to a reasonable budget and just keep incrementing it, I'm out. Can't plan anything like that. 

Yea, maybe that did go off a little bit. 

Plan A, is in my laser engraving thread I just started. Plan B is my grandmother's wedding ring that my mom offered me. Plan C/ E36 M3s n giggles was looking for a ring for her last night. I found one I really like, but at $700, I think we'd all rather the money go towards our house hunting. I just couldn't believe the things I was seeing that as a "designer ring" for $250 maGically become $3500 when they put engagement in the title. Not changing stones or clarity or material, just changing the name.

She doesn't do jewelry, which is nice, but I do have a family friend private jeweler. My dad went to dialysis with the original owner, and his daughter runs it now. She's always done really really well by me, and will probably get the wedding ring. 

Courthouse wedding with parents or Vegas vacation. Party at my house afterwards to tell everyone else. 

After seeing what $12k got my friends in May, we're perfectly happy doing things low key and cheap.