Appleseed said:I'm letting him roll. I want to see how much E36 M3 this toddler throws on the ground. Toys, books, blankets. It'll probably end up all of it.
Are you sure he's not part cat?
Appleseed said:I'm letting him roll. I want to see how much E36 M3 this toddler throws on the ground. Toys, books, blankets. It'll probably end up all of it.
Are you sure he's not part cat?
CJ (FS) said:So I used to teach math. Why in the world does everyone on every newscast do this -
The Dow is up 29 POINT 61 today. No, Just no.
The Dow is up 29 AND 61 hundredths today.
Its not that hard, folks.
Related rant: 104 is "One hundred four", not "100 and 4".
mtn said:CJ (FS) said:So I used to teach math. Why in the world does everyone on every newscast do this -
The Dow is up 29 POINT 61 today. No, Just no.
The Dow is up 29 AND 61 hundredths today.
Its not that hard, folks.
Related rant: 104 is "One hundred four", not "100 and 4".
Abraham Lincoln would disagree.
In reply to mtn :
When I worked at the parts counter it always bugged me when people would say they drove a '204 malibu' or a '207 altima'
FB Marketplace appears to just not allow/sell auto parts any more, or at least I can't find a category to search for and browse them.
Ashyukun (Robert) said:FB Marketplace appears to just not allow/sell auto parts any more, or at least I can't find a category to search for and browse them.
I just looked, still there. Hard to find, but there.
Toyman01 + Sized and said:Appleseed said:I'm letting him roll. I want to see how much E36 M3 this toddler throws on the ground. Toys, books, blankets. It'll probably end up all of it.
Are you sure he's not part cat?
All toddlers are shiny happy people.
All cats are shiny happy people.
So...yes. Yes he is.
As we are walking out of the store this afternoon. A very, very light sprinkle is coming down. I don't mind and the boys is having fun with it.
Putting him in the car seat is like strapping a Mercury astronaut in before launch. It takes a bit, especially if the kid has gone full noodle and is flipping about.
Over my shoulder I hear, "Can you hurry up. I'm getting wet." Some old bag has gotten less sprinkled on than I wants to get in her SUV (badly) parked next to us.
"This is a baby. Be patient. "
hunter47 said:In reply to Scotty Con Queso :
It doesn't even make sense! It throws away 33% of the syllables.
(light hearted observation which is not made in the spirit of belitting the rant)
Which is exactly why it happens.
In my area, Durham is "Derm" and any other word that can be clipped shorter while conveying the meaning to a local with the same accent is fair game. If you don't like it, you're welcome to move back where you came from, or so I've been told, directly.
My chosen rant, because there are many to select from:
Every store in my area is short on coins, but every single one of them gives me the side eye if I try to pay in coins. I'm not even talking large purchases, I mean like a $1.06 coffee refill at my local gas station, with four quarters, a nickel and a penny. EXACT CHANGE. It's easier and less expensive for the store to take that than to try and make me use a card for that purchase.
Also, no, I'm not giving you my phone number for whatever frequent buyer's club you have. Stop slowing down my checkout to make me opt out.
"We would love your feedback" SPAM.
"Please hold for a short survey at the end of this call" phone calls.
No, unless you are paying me for my time!
Pretty often you REALLY do not want ME to rate your poor/terrible service.
I may make an exception for the Fed-Ex delivery that has made ten stops so far without reaching me. Five of them just over the CA border, WHY?
classicJackets (FS) said:Second time in a year I've had a spark find it's way past my safety glasses and scratch my eye.
So this got worse yesterday, had a rough night trying to sleep last night, and we're loading the riggamort + family today to start our drive South. Luckily I can get some prescription antibiotic/numbing drops today, but I should have gotten them yesterday instead..
classicJackets (FS) said:classicJackets (FS) said:Second time in a year I've had a spark find it's way past my safety glasses and scratch my eye.
So this got worse yesterday, had a rough night trying to sleep last night, and we're loading the riggamort + family today to start our drive South. Luckily I can get some prescription antibiotic/numbing drops today, but I should have gotten them yesterday instead..
If it's getting worse, you probably have the spark stuck to your eye. Numbing drops may just make it worse. Go see your optometrist, they will generally look at eye injuries on an emergency basis.
Ask me how I know.
Streetwiseguy said:classicJackets (FS) said:classicJackets (FS) said:Second time in a year I've had a spark find it's way past my safety glasses and scratch my eye.
So this got worse yesterday, had a rough night trying to sleep last night, and we're loading the riggamort + family today to start our drive South. Luckily I can get some prescription antibiotic/numbing drops today, but I should have gotten them yesterday instead..
If it's getting worse, you probably have the spark stuck to your eye. Numbing drops may just make it worse. Go see your optometrist, they will generally look at eye injuries on an emergency basis.
Ask me how I know.
E36 M3
Can we have ONE morning where you aren't a miserable little shiny happy person child? Please, just one? I'm so berkeleying sick of waking up to this bullE36 M3 EVERY SINGLE berkeleyING DAY.
It pisses me off to no end that we live in a society where everybody's gotta find someone to blame and run off to court chasing the big bucks. I've got 7 tires to move around on rims and I can get the local tire shop up the road to help me because they're scared of liability if anything goes wrong with the tire. berkeley. When I'm quasi-benevolent Dictator of the World, that E36 M3 stops. You tell the tire store to mount tires that you brought in, it's on you not the store. Anybody trying to sue the store for that gets 5 years of being lashed with a rubber chicken three times a day.
wae said:It pisses me off to no end that we live in a society where everybody's gotta find someone to blame and run off to court chasing the big bucks. I've got 7 tires to move around on rims and I can get the local tire shop up the road to help me because they're scared of liability if anything goes wrong with the tire. berkeley. When I'm quasi-benevolent Dictator of the World, that E36 M3 stops. You tell the tire store to mount tires that you brought in, it's on you not the store. Anybody trying to sue the store for that gets 5 years of being lashed with a rubber chicken three times a day.
I had some retreaded snow tires I bought a few years ago, it took me awhile to get someone to put them on for me.
Apparently people sue the tireshop if their tire fails?
In reply to wae :
Got a garage? Get a harbor freight tire mounting machine and ask a Discount Tire to rebalance the wheels for you.
Speaking from quasi-experience (didn't mount the tires myself but they rebalanced tires they didn't mount for me).
Streetwiseguy said:classicJackets (FS) said:classicJackets (FS) said:Second time in a year I've had a spark find it's way past my safety glasses and scratch my eye.
So this got worse yesterday, had a rough night trying to sleep last night, and we're loading the riggamort + family today to start our drive South. Luckily I can get some prescription antibiotic/numbing drops today, but I should have gotten them yesterday instead..
If it's getting worse, you probably have the spark stuck to your eye. Numbing drops may just make it worse. Go see your optometrist, they will generally look at eye injuries on an emergency basis.
Ask me how I know.
This. My eye doc pulls shrapnel out of my peepers pretty regularly. I must be wearing the safety glasses. Or maybe I should just get a hood. Either way, it's usually super quick. Only once or twice has it been a big deal and that was because I left a piece in too long and it started to rust, or it was scratching the E36 M3 out of my eyelid.
In reply to wae :
Try finding a shop to sell you used tires to slap on a project in storage... It doesn't even run, and won't for some time... I'd just like to upgrade to something that holds air.
wae said:It pisses me off to no end that we live in a society where everybody's gotta find someone to blame and run off to court chasing the big bucks. I've got 7 tires to move around on rims and I can get the local tire shop up the road to help me because they're scared of liability if anything goes wrong with the tire. berkeley. When I'm quasi-benevolent Dictator of the World, that E36 M3 stops. You tell the tire store to mount tires that you brought in, it's on you not the store. Anybody trying to sue the store for that gets 5 years of being lashed with a rubber chicken three times a day.
After I bought the BMW, I went on a tear and bought like 2 additional complete sets of wheels (one with completely mismatched brand/tread tires that is what I've been driving on for the last year and a half) with the intent of having 3 full sets: one that I could put nice new all-seasons on, one for the A7 race tires I got from Jeremy, and a spare set that I could perhaps put a set of winter tires on (though the odds of my driving a lowered E46 in the snow are pretty low).
So I take one set of the wheels along with the A7's to the tire shop down the road from me. Bear in mind- though a few years old, these things have only a few runs on them and still have the wear dimples in them. I pull up, drop the tires and wheels inside the bay, and head in to the waiting area. A few minutes later, the tech who'd been handed the job comes in and says he needs to talk with me about it- so I follow him out to the bay. When we get out there he picks up one of the tires and tells me with a very serious tone that he can't mount these tires because they're so worn that there is absolutely no tread. As I'm standing there trying to figure out just how to respond to this, a younger tech comes over and takes one look at the tires and busts out laughing- and we had to spend the next few minutes explaining to the first tech that the tires never had a tread and were perfectly fine.
Streetwiseguy said:classicJackets (FS) said:classicJackets (FS) said:Second time in a year I've had a spark find it's way past my safety glasses and scratch my eye.
So this got worse yesterday, had a rough night trying to sleep last night, and we're loading the riggamort + family today to start our drive South. Luckily I can get some prescription antibiotic/numbing drops today, but I should have gotten them yesterday instead..
If it's getting worse, you probably have the spark stuck to your eye. Numbing drops may just make it worse. Go see your optometrist, they will generally look at eye injuries on an emergency basis.
Ask me how I know.
Metal flake and rust ring removed from my eye. berkeley that wasn't fun, now to load the trailer..
This is about half rant, half laugh in their face.
Two years ago you asked me why you shouldn't buy a door operator that was $1000 cheaper than what I was selling. I explained at the time that it was a Chinese operator without an importer. I thought that parts would be a problem and I was uncertain that the durability would be up to the traffic load of the opening you wanted it installed on. I also told you that if you ordered it off the internet that I wouldn't install it because I was not supplying the materials.
Fast forward to today. Now you want me to replace the operator that you bought with something better built and better supported and want me to honor a price that is two years old during this time of extreme inflation.
Hang on just a second, let me think about that...
I'll send you an updated price. I won't even include any dumbass padding to it. Well, not much.
classicJackets (FS) said:Streetwiseguy said:classicJackets (FS) said:classicJackets (FS) said:Second time in a year I've had a spark find it's way past my safety glasses and scratch my eye.
So this got worse yesterday, had a rough night trying to sleep last night, and we're loading the riggamort + family today to start our drive South. Luckily I can get some prescription antibiotic/numbing drops today, but I should have gotten them yesterday instead..
If it's getting worse, you probably have the spark stuck to your eye. Numbing drops may just make it worse. Go see your optometrist, they will generally look at eye injuries on an emergency basis.
Ask me how I know.
Metal flake and rust ring removed from my eye. berkeley that wasn't fun, now to load the trailer..
It would have been even less fun tomorrow.
I cannot tell you how many times I was told, as a kid, watch out for your eyes. You only get two of them. That has stuck with me, but not nearly as much as giving up trying to sleep and heading to the ER at 2:30am. It's one of those things that I can ignore through the day, but laying in bed...
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