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

What is it with people who will not let you merge? Today coming home, I am in the "fast lane" doing 55 in a 50 slowly passing a line of cars. I get ahead of the last car by several car lengths and go to move over and they speed up to close the gap.. so I speed up more and they stay with me, keeping their front bumper almost even with my rear.. I have an exit coming up in a mile so I need to move over. Slowing down did not help, they continued to pace me.. so I floored it, getting up to almost 80 before overtaking the car that was once way ahead of us in the lane I needed to be in.. this was the only way I could scrape this idiot off my bumper so I could move over..

And it was not like I was going to block them getting off.. they kept going straight down the road

lots of people out there on the highway are shiny happy people … nuf said

First let me say that Italian taxi drivers are fun, generally. They drive fast and aggressive as if in a race.

But if a taxi driver has poor relative speed sensing, you should not be a taxi driver. He slammed on the brakes a few times were I would have accelerated to make a pass. And stayed behind slow cars for an extended time, before driving like a bat out of hell on the autostrada... Hard to tell if he wanted to go fast, or be slow- but it sure does not feel careful- it feels hesitant.

Lots of morons said: It cranks but won't turn over.

WHY do people say this? I hate to be a dick about something this minor, but "crank" and "turn over" are the same thing. What it won't do is "fire" or "start" or "run". I see this a lot.

I made it 40 years without one but the missus said she needed a dishwasher.

What a useless POS. It combines the cleaning technology of pissing on a skidmark in the toilet bowl with enough heat to permanently set whatever it couldn't dislodge.

In reply to Jumper K. Balls:

Remember, happy wife, happy life.

I feel the same way about the clothes dryer, I see no reason to run that power sucking thing when the weather is warm and dry, but I've learned not to fight that fight.

Jumper K. Balls wrote: I made it 40 years without one but the missus said she needed a dishwasher. What a useless POS. It combines the cleaning technology of pissing on a skidmark in the toilet bowl with enough heat to permanently set whatever it couldn't dislodge.

Then you bought a crappy dishwasher or you eat a lot of lasagna and then let the dishes sit for a week before running it. I load my KitchenAid, barely even prerinse, and fire it up. Dishes get clean while I do something more productive. Let 'em sit for a couple hours after the cycle is over and they are magically dry.

HappyAndy wrote: I feel the same way about the clothes dryer, I see no reason to run that power sucking thing when the weather is warm and dry, but I've learned not to fight that fight.

Because it takes 30 seconds to move the wet clothes into the dryer and another 3 seconds to set the cycle and push the button - then I get to move on with my life until 30 minutes later (or whenever I feel like it) I can fold them. It takes at least 15 minutes to hang a load of laundry, plus several hours for it to dry, and then it MUST be taken in - no leaving it overnight if you're busy or lazy.

We haven't yet reached the post-apocalyptic wasteland where a few hours of my life doing chores is worth less than a few decimal kilowatts of electricity.

Yeah I know dishwashers can work well, most do, I think you got a crappy one.

Around here we hang clothes up whenever the weather permits. Running a clothes dryer would be very noticeable on your electric bill.

In reply to Duke: QFT

sometimes it depends on the layout of the home … the laundry is in the NW corner of the basement … no access to the outside anywhere other than the southern end of the house … then all the way BACK around the house to the backyard to hang up the clothes …

just a design flaw that my Dad didn't anticipate

Damn you RockAuto for having cheap parts on closeout!!! I just spent another $80 on that crap to try to finish the red Ranger in the yard....

Jumper K. Balls wrote: I made it 40 years without one but the missus said she needed a dishwasher. What a useless POS. It combines the cleaning technology of pissing on a skidmark in the toilet bowl with enough heat to permanently set whatever it couldn't dislodge.

Hard water? The new detergents don't work very well in hard water. Tablespoon or two of sodium triphosphate (not TSP) will fix that, at the expense of potential environmental damages.

Also, are you loading it right?

Kenny_McCormic wrote:

Jumper K. Balls wrote: I made it 40 years without one but the missus said she needed a dishwasher. What a useless POS. It combines the cleaning technology of pissing on a skidmark in the toilet bowl with enough heat to permanently set whatever it couldn't dislodge.

Hard water? The new detergents don't work very well in hard water. Tablespoon or two of sodium triphosphate (not TSP) will fix that, at the expense of potential environmental damages. Also, are you loading it right?

They sell this stuff called LemonShine at target and wall-mart that makes dish washers clean like magic for some reason.

Kenny_McCormic wrote:

Jumper K. Balls wrote: I made it 40 years without one but the missus said she needed a dishwasher. What a useless POS. It combines the cleaning technology of pissing on a skidmark in the toilet bowl with enough heat to permanently set whatever it couldn't dislodge.

Hard water? The new detergents don't work very well in hard water. Tablespoon or two of sodium triphosphate (not TSP) will fix that, at the expense of potential environmental damages. Also, are you loading it right?

Which detergent you use makes a difference, too. I usually use regular Cascade liquid, and it does pretty well. The store was out at one point, and I bought Cascade Complete instead. That E36 M3 was worthless. Same company, world's of difference. I still wipe down a lot of dishes with a sponge before putting them in the dishwasher, nothing is as good as it used to been when it had phosphates.

Let your dog lick the plates clean before you run it.

Duke wrote:

Jumper K. Balls wrote: I made it 40 years without one but the missus said she needed a dishwasher. What a useless POS. It combines the cleaning technology of pissing on a skidmark in the toilet bowl with enough heat to permanently set whatever it couldn't dislodge.

Then you bought a crappy dishwasher or you eat a lot of lasagna and then let the dishes sit for a week before running it. I load my KitchenAid, barely even prerinse, and fire it up. Dishes get clean while I do something more productive. Let 'em sit for a couple hours after the cycle is over and they are magically dry.

HappyAndy wrote: I feel the same way about the clothes dryer, I see no reason to run that power sucking thing when the weather is warm and dry, but I've learned not to fight that fight.

Because it takes 30 seconds to move the wet clothes into the dryer and another 3 seconds to set the cycle and push the button - then I get to move on with my life until 30 minutes later (or whenever I feel like it) I can fold them. It takes at least 15 minutes to hang a load of laundry, plus several hours for it to dry, and then it MUST be taken in - no leaving it overnight if you're busy or lazy. We haven't yet reached the post-apocalyptic wasteland where a few hours of my life doing chores is worth less than a few decimal kilowatts of electricity.

I suppose you don't churn your own butter either.

mtn wrote: Let your dog lick the plates clean before you run it.

always works for me

Wallie wrote: I suppose you don't churn your own butter either.

What is the world coming to?

Wallie wrote:

Duke wrote:

Jumper K. Balls wrote: I made it 40 years without one but the missus said she needed a dishwasher.

HappyAndy wrote: I feel the same way about the clothes dryer, I see no reason to run that power sucking thing when the weather is warm and dry.>

We haven't yet reached the post-apocalyptic wasteland where a few hours of my life doing chores is worth less than a few decimal kilowatts of electricity.

I suppose you don't churn your own butter either.

And I gave away my carpet beater, too.

After paddocking next to an early model Cayman S at Road America and getting smoked out a start up several times (claimed known bad air/oil separator design), hearing stories about power steering fluid fires, various ways to grenade the engine, I'm thinking folks should think of Porsches as cheaper Ferraris rather than more expensive BMWs. People seem to expect these kind of quirks in a Ferrari.

wbjones wrote:

mtn wrote: Let your dog lick the plates clean before you run it.

always works for me

Make sure he licks his ass and balls before he gets to the plates.

Found a shopping cart bash on the passenger door of the FR-S. Berk!

So.. working today.. by myself from 11am till 5. Set up for a meeting, several lunches, and spent three hours setting a "full décor" party. This involved setting out 30 some lights and focusing them in artistic and tasteful ways before spending an hour on a 20 foot high ladder focusing the ceiling lights on the floor with some nice colour and patterns..

The guy who came in at 5 only had to run comedy club and paperwork related to inventory.. and spent so much time bitching about it.. I left two hours early.

Jumper K. Balls wrote: I made it 40 years without one but the missus said she needed a dishwasher.

I washed the dishes every night for the first 10 years of my marriage and then I cut into my cabinets and installed a dishwasher. I was thrilled to not wash everything. You didn't buy one of those portable units, did you?

I'll blame it on being sick at the time but who was the dumbass who bought the wrong end of brake pads for the SWMBO's Suburban when they were driving past Summit? Oh yeah that's me! Just another $100 down. But it does get me some clutch line parts while I was shopping for the challenge Ranger....