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

gixxeropa said:

In reply to mtn :

they don't make jeans for people that have any muscle on their thighs. I'm not even particularly big, but I have to try on so many jeans to find some that have enough room in the thighs to actually be able to put things in the pockets. Dress pants are even worse in my experience

For the longest time, this was my issue because my thighs were almost as big as my waist and where I excelled in thigh muscles I lacked in gluteal muscles.  So I had pants that were too tight, fell off without a belt, or both...

mtn said:

I have come to the conclusion that either the average buyer of men's jeans has skinny chicken legs, or I have spectacular thunder thighs. Or both. 
 

Relaxed fit jeans. I can easily button and zip a 36, I could probably even suck it in a bit and fit in a 34. But I can't move in them. So I have to wear 38s and cinch the belt up. 
 

I need to start a campaign to make overalls business appropriate. 

Then there are the brands that intentionally make their sizing an inch or two big. The idea being that you'll wear brand X instead of Y because X let's you tell people that you are a 36 while Y makes you admit the truth that you're actually a 38.

gixxeropa said:

yesterday I got a donut at the quiktrip, I thought for sure it was a cream filled long john, but it was actually just a long, rectangular, unfilled donut.

When I was a kid in S.F., fried won tons universally came with a delightful morsel of pork and some surrounding deliciousness. They were awesome.

After moving to the PNW, I haven't seen a proper fried won ton like that in decades. They're all what I would describe as fried won ton wrappers, with nothing to wrap.

Some foods promise a filling, and should deliver.

Web chat that is useless compared to a phone call. And not talking about AI, but you get an actual live agent in chat and their answer is basically, call us to discuss further. 

Why can't I discuss with you? You should have the same power / authority etc.

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

gixxeropa said:

In reply to mtn :

they don't make jeans for people that have any muscle on their thighs. I'm not even particularly big, but I have to try on so many jeans to find some that have enough room in the thighs to actually be able to put things in the pockets. Dress pants are even worse in my experience

For the longest time, this was my issue because my thighs were almost as big as my waist and where I excelled in thigh muscles I lacked in gluteal muscles.  So I had pants that were too tight, fell off without a belt, or both...

Sounds like you need a gluteal orthotic!

In reply to dan0 :

I could explain, but I'll need you to call me to actually explain it lol

It's super annoying and I don't know why that step even exists

In reply to mtn :

And apparently has no junk, or at least has a fetish to have their junk constantly crushed. I'm astonished by the new fit of jeans

Key pants are apparently 2 sizes smaller than Wranglers too or vice versa so that's fun to buy online.

All of this is why I no longer wear jeans and have suspenders on 90% of the time. I don't like crushing my ass into too small pants so I can claim I wear some number. I don't like wearing a belt so tight it gives me heartburn just to keep my pants up. I don't like my ass hanging out or hitching up my pants all day long.

Comfortable, loose pants and suspenders because Function>Form in all things. 

Frigidaire's website is as good as their fridges. Despite wrestling for a while to get it to update my contact info, which for some reason it keeps reverting, it still gave the repair contractor my old landline number.

I wanted to race Monday so I took the race bike - the one I built over the winter out for some practice laps. Right away I knew something was wrong and the motor has to come apart. I think the only bike I haven't had problems with this season is the TM.  Because I haven't had time to put it back together since I've been working on everything else, or injured. 
 

This is the worst start to a season I've ever had 

In reply to Crxpilot :

HAHAHAHA! (Strong with The Force, This One Is...)

It is a convoluted and circuitous history -heheh, get it??-, but suffice it,

you are spot-on.

Damned near soiled myself, seeing your recent note about Lubbock's miasma of misguided merge ragers. 

Lubbock, Loop 289 North at Highway 84, straight shot to New Mexico. The Clovis Highway intersection? Oblique-angled multitrack level crossing?

Think, the Cinnabon shaped ingress road, to acceleration merge ramps shorter than Soviet era Kuznetsov's comical commie ski jumps.

I've seen things, and you nailed it. That is a Capital-T-Thing, here.

Retired to Lubbock a few years ago after 35yrs as (Austin / Round Rock) police patrol officer.

My career encompassed the eras of bifurcated lane IH35 to the NAFTA Drug Corridor Years the..ahem...Highway Interdiction era of the Drug War...yaddayaddayadda.  Lots and lots of traffic stuff stuck in my monkeybrain. 

Thanks for the Fun Friday note. Godspeed!

gixxeropa said:

In reply to mtn :

they don't make jeans for people that have any muscle on their thighs. I'm not even particularly big, but I have to try on so many jeans to find some that have enough room in the thighs to actually be able to put things in the pockets. Dress pants are even worse in my experience

I'm pretty sure the smallest pair of pants Costco sells would have ample room for Ronnie Coleman at his peak 

I love my brother. Be there by six does NOT mean that getting the trailer hooked up an hour away at 7:30

I could choke him....

In reply to Crxpilot :

HAHAHAHA! (Strong with The Force, This One Is...)

It is a convoluted and circuitous history -heheh, get it??-, but suffice it,

you are spot-on.

Damned near soiled myself, seeing your recent note about Lubbock's miasma of misguided merge ragers. 

Lubbock, Loop 289 North at Highway 84, straight shot to New Mexico. The Clovis Highway intersection? Oblique-angled multitrack level crossing?

Think, the Cinnabon shaped ingress road, to acceleration merge ramps shorter than Soviet era Kuznetsov's comical commie ski jumps.

I've seen things, and you nailed it. That is a Capital-T-Thing, here.

Retired to Lubbock a few years ago after 35yrs as (Austin / Round Rock) police patrol officer.

My career encompassed the eras of bifurcated lane IH35 to the NAFTA Drug Corridor Years the..ahem...Highway Interdiction era of the Drug War...yaddayaddayadda.  Lots and lots of traffic stuff stuck in my monkeybrain. 

Thanks for the Fun Friday note. Godspeed!

Anxiety doesn't ruin your life. It ruins your life in untold combinations of the 472 ways you've already anticipated.

I hope one day right-to-repair agreements mandate jack points for vehicles that are independent of jack stands.  So many new-ish cars seem to be designed for lift-service only.

Appleseed said:

Anxiety doesn't ruin your life. It ruins your life in untold combinations of the 472 ways you've already anticipated.

Don't forget the joy of self-sabotage...

Good grief...

TravisTheHuman said:

I hope one day right-to-repair agreements mandate jack points for vehicles that are independent of jack stands.  So many new-ish cars seem to be designed for lift-service only.

Because they are.

Don't forget the factory mandated lift adapters as well.

GM won't send the lift adapters for the Corvette to dealers that aren't authorized to work on them.

Small rant here: Mental health problems passed off as "quirky" or just "different". There is an epidemic of mental health issues and I've recently discovered that some mental health problems are contagious. Nobody wants to be the one to tell someone to get some help and here in North America we almost never force someone to get help, even when they are hurting themselves so these problems just go on untreated.

Peabody said:

I wanted to race Monday so I took the race bike - the one I built over the winter out for some practice laps. Right away I knew something was wrong and the motor has to come apart.

On a bright note, I discovered the reason for the excessive vibration was not a broken piston, or bottom end bearing like I suspected. It was two loose motor mounts. I tore it down anyway, because two stroke, and being a very aggressively ported and timed 15.5-1 compression engine, I wanted to look for signs of detonation, or wear, and it looks and measures like the day I built it.

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

gixxeropa said:

In reply to mtn :

they don't make jeans for people that have any muscle on their thighs. I'm not even particularly big, but I have to try on so many jeans to find some that have enough room in the thighs to actually be able to put things in the pockets. Dress pants are even worse in my experience

For the longest time, this was my issue because my thighs were almost as big as my waist and where I excelled in thigh muscles I lacked in gluteal muscles.  So I had pants that were too tight, fell off without a belt, or both...

Levi 559's or Carhart duck fronts. I have to live in both of them. 33 inch waist and I need 36-38's to fit my legs. Though I am shaped like a inverted triangle. 

Rockauto gonna Rockauto.  I have a box of brake pads here that has one correct pair and one incorrect pair.  
 

I don't know why I ever bother with them.

gixxeropa said:

In reply to mtn :

they don't make jeans for people that have any muscle on their thighs. I'm not even particularly big, but I have to try on so many jeans to find some that have enough room in the thighs to actually be able to put things in the pockets. Dress pants are even worse in my experience

Levis has a variety of styles in what they call relaxed fit and loose fit, that have a lot more room in the legs for a given waist size.

stuart in mn said:

gixxeropa said:

In reply to mtn :

they don't make jeans for people that have any muscle on their thighs. I'm not even particularly big, but I have to try on so many jeans to find some that have enough room in the thighs to actually be able to put things in the pockets. Dress pants are even worse in my experience

Levis has a variety of styles in what they call relaxed fit and loose fit, that have a lot more room in the legs for a given waist size.

Ever since they discontinued the 560's, they lost me as a customer. I now get Dearborn Denim out of Chicago and they have jeans that will fit like the old 560's. Another one I get is Unionbay cargo pants off the big river company.

I just want to find thing I'm looking for online.  I don't want to see a 'feed' of garbage some algorithm calculated that people in my area or demographic might be interested in, packed with ads for crap I don't need, sprinkled with clickbait brainrot or fake news propaganda.  WTF.