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

RevRico wrote: I don't know the backstory, and it's none of my business. There is more than enough of other peoples drama going on right now to care, frankly. But to see such childishness over something so serious, and to tack on that sort of public humiliation is just....disturbing. This was either the worst "hey we're getting a divorce" I've seen in a long time, or an amazing scam that paid out a few free beers, as we all pitched in and bought him a couple when we figured out what happened. Guys, Girls, whatevers, this is an adult thing that should be handled as such. Thinking about a divorce? Talk about it with them. Married is supposed to be more than a faceplace status.

It's been my somewhat limited experience that this same lack of adult communication is also probably a large factor in the first place.

I suppose it would be even worse if one were to have greatly expanded experience, in retrospect.

RevRico wrote: I can't get drunk anymore. Most of the time I'm fine with it, but it's really frustrating with weeks like this. It's not to say I am not affected by alcohol, that is NOT the case. But I can't get drunk and sleep it off. Or drink myself to sleep anymore. I go from falling down drunk to bed, and wake up about 4 hours later completely wired like I was chugging cans of Monster and stone sober. Not hungover, not still drunk, sober and wide the berk awake. This has saved me a lot of money this year, between bar tabs and bad decisions. But it has taken away something I do occasionally enjoy. The good days of summer, waking up to crack a beer and light the smoker at 7am and drinking and eating all day preparing for a good 12 hour nap at the end of the night. Nope. 2 or 3 hours of sleep, wide awake, and sober. Bah. It doesn't even have to be a marathon drinking session to do this. 3 or 4 beers at bowling or with dinner will have the same affect when I go to bed that night even if I have no realtime affects. Maybe it's my body dishing out payback for spending every night from 18-25 at the bar. Or spending the better part of the last 18 months not drinking at least on a weekly basis.

This may sound like really odd advice.

Go on a low carb diet for a few weeks.

I've been trending to being less and less sensitive to Alcohol for a while now. But a few weeks ago, we decided to change our diet a lot- and yes, I know there's a lot of controversy over low carb/high fat, atkins, etc kind of diets. But we made our choice and are going with it. Anyway, the key part of it is to get your body to change over it's metabolism from sugar/starch/carbs to fat. A side effect of that is that one resets their alcohol sensitivity back to almost 0. Last night, I had two shots of rye- and before, that would barely phase me- but last night, it got me quite a bit.

Anyway- controversial solution so that you feel the effects of alcohol again.

This could've been a major rant but it really just turned into a minor rant. I dropped off my eldest daughters, new to her, 2001 Hyundai Accent at the local Hyundai dealership to be safety certified and emission tested. Got a phone call from the used car sales manager telling me that he had accidently sent it to the wrecker. He thought it was a trade in that hadn't been wanted by any of the local used car lots. Bottom line they admitted their mistake and are compensating me fairly for it. It still means I'm now looking for a low cost, clean, good on gas car for her to drive back and forth to school.

In reply to Wayslow:

Did this involve an Artic blue sports wagon, with an optional rally fun pack?

Was supposed to meet with the supervisor at 9 am to trun in my equipment and keys. Be done by 10. They didn't even show up til 1:45. Couldn't get luch as they couldn't be bothered to answer phones or emails. berkeleying petty on their behalf

Wayslow wrote: This could've been a major rant but it really just turned into a minor rant. I dropped off my eldest daughters, new to her, 2001 Hyundai Accent at the local Hyundai dealership to be safety certified and emission tested. Got a phone call from the used car sales manager telling me that he had accidently sent it to the wrecker. He thought it was a trade in that hadn't been wanted by any of the local used car lots. Bottom line they admitted their mistake and are compensating me fairly for it. It still means I'm now looking for a low cost, clean, good on gas car for her to drive back and forth to school.

ask them what cars they have on the lot you can have.

In reply to Huckleberry:

You might think it's trivial but once you lose sight of land a compass is mighty handy.

Wayslow wrote: This could've been a major rant but it really just turned into a minor rant. I dropped off my eldest daughters, new to her, 2001 Hyundai Accent at the local Hyundai dealership to be safety certified and emission tested. Got a phone call from the used car sales manager telling me that he had accidently sent it to the wrecker. He thought it was a trade in that hadn't been wanted by any of the local used car lots. Bottom line they admitted their mistake and are compensating me fairly for it. It still means I'm now looking for a low cost, clean, good on gas car for her to drive back and forth to school.

I can only imagine the sinking feeling in that guys gut when he realized what he had done...I've busted and fixed lots of peoples stuff, but I've never actually crushed a customers car.

In reply to Wayslow:

actually crushed?

Well the Crammit is smashed.

After narrowly escaping a head-on with an F150 yesterday, my luck ran out today and I t boned a Transit Connect. Coming home from work on a 4 lane state road approaching an off ramp from US15, the TC is sitting at the off ramp waiting to turn left across my path of travel as I am traveling in the right lane with no one around me. TC dude starts pulling out at a very leisurely pace WAY too late, so I brake and move to the left lane figuring he's going to see me and stop dead in the right. Nope, kept going right into my path of travel, by which point all I could do was keep braking and brace for impact. Hit him hard enough to flip the TC on its side.

TC guy was totally fine, I got a pretty good goose egg on my forehead but that's it. Went to the hospital just as a precaution, but I'm fine other than a slight headache. First time I've ever had an airbag deploy and it was like a punch in the face.

Other guy was held 100% at fault and I'm pretty sure the Camaro is toast. Bumper, headlights, hood, ect definitely destroyed, coolant leaking, frame probably tweaked. But it looks at first glance like the wheels, suspension, and drivetrain are salvageable, which is great. Huge silver lining is I now have an ideal LS1 donor . Thread debating what to put it into to come. Also, how does buying a car back from the insurance co work?

SJWs incessant wailing and gnashing of teeth over President Trump.

In reply to Furious_E:

You need to stay away from Ford Vehicles. they had it out for the Crammit

A friend and co-worker has been dealing with severe back pain and a nasty cough for a very long time. He finally relented and saw a doctor about 1 1/2 weeks ago. Over this past week the prognosis has gone from adverse reaction to meds then to lung and liver cancer then finally today I got word that it's stage 4 terminal cancer with "too many lesions to count".

The doctor told him he could make it 6 weeks or 1 year at most. He's 46.

berkeley CANCER!!!!

The_Jed wrote: A friend and co-worker has been dealing with severe back pain and a nasty cough for a very long time. He finally relented and saw a doctor about 1 1/2 weeks ago. Over this past week the prognosis has gone from adverse reaction to meds then to lung and liver cancer then finally today I got word that it's stage 4 terminal cancer with "too many lesions to count". The doctor told him he could make it 6 weeks or 1 year at most. He's 46. berkeley CANCER!!!!

berkeley man, sorry to hear that. I had a new manager that started earlier this year, who I very much liked and got along with, that came down with a bad cough, which eventually turned to a nagging case of pneumonia. After a few weeks his doctors got suspicious and ordered a full battery of testing to make sure nothing more was going on. Sure enough it turned out to be a very aggressive form of lung cancer. Fortunately, by sheer luck of him catching pneumonia, they caught it extremely early and he's doing well now after chemo. Scary E36 M3 though, I was pretty torn up about it for a while. He's 49 btw.

Moral of the story though is don't wait to get yourself checked out if something doesn't feel right. Cancer can be dealt with if caught early enough. Good luck to your friend and berkeley cancer.

mad_machine wrote: In reply to Furious_E: You need to stay away from Ford Vehicles. they had it out for the Crammit

Toyotas too, apparently. My last car, an e36, got totaled when I was rear ended by a Tacoma

After determining that the Jeep's front subframe was completely unsalvageable and needed to be replaced, I found a good used one via Amazon and ordered it and it was shipped out relatively quickly scheduled for delivery next Thursday. Got the shipping notice for it and thought all was well.

I went to check up on the status of the exhaust manifold which should be arriving any day now (out for delivery now it seems) and noticed a warning sign on the order for the subframe- and when I clicked on it I was informed that the order had been 'refused at delivery/undeliverable' and was on its way back to the seller. WTF?!? It only shipped out two days ago via Ground and I saw nothing about this. The good news is that I should get a full refund on it when they get it back.

Decided that if THAT'S the way it's going to be, I'll just spend the extra $100 to get a NEW part instead of a used one, and that should get here about when the original order would have. A bit more piece of mind than a used replacement for a part that is known to have massive rust issues, but it still sucks to pay more for something I should have been observant enough to have noticed in the first place and simply not bought the vehicle as a result...

Man, Land Rovers are so ccol.

Just till you have to work on one.

What the berkeley do you know about it?

I'm a berkeleying mechanic, dickhead.

Saw the doc yesterday about some strange lower back pain. Looks like a pinched sciatic nerve. They gave me a heavy dose of steroids and an anti inflammatory. Now I'm incredibly hungry and incredibly irritable.

fasted58 wrote: In reply to Wayslow: actually crushed?

15 year old car? Probably gettin' crushed as soon as it enters the yard.

I've had a head cold all week that has slowly ramped up from malaise to having to sleep with my head elevated, this is the best way to find out you're out of the good meth precursor decongestant.

I have a very flounder related rant about someone who was at the shop today that I'll spare everyone (somebody has been brainwashed hard, we'll leave it at that) but here's a rant that is GRM-friendly.

Dear 4L80. How did you turn Dexron VI into THAT???

Signed, my nostrils

PS - How do I get the smell off of my hands without the use of caustics or fire? I didn't even touch the stuff directly!

In reply to Knurled:

Cover it up with something that smells even worse?

In reply to Nick (Bo) Comstock:

I am not certain that such a substance exists.

I am attempting to handle the problem with liberal application of Elijah Craig, which doesn't cover up the smell but at least makes me notice it less.

The story is, it is a box truck that ate... something. Don't know yet. But it had the classic symptoms of a plugging filter, van no move but shut it off and wait a while and it can move some more until the filter plugs again. GM did not deign to put a drain plug in the pan, so I had to drop it the old-fashioned way. And the truck is big enough that we had to back it onto the drive-on lift (took a couple plug-settle cycles) and the back of the truck overhangs past where the air hose reels are mounted to the ceiling, so my Monday is going to be pulling the truck's trans on the ground because we can't lift it more than a couple feet. This will maybe be the fourth time I've had to do one this way, always sucks.

The pan was funny, though. Dropped the pan and I could see up into the filter and the filter element was sucked up into its housing like an anorexic supermodel's ribcage. Rolled out over the lift arm, pulled the pan out, and even after draining the pan looked full of fluid. There's a solid 1/8" of SEDIMENT across the whole bottom of the pan! They must have tolerated issues for a long time.

Fluid was burnt to say the least. Dark sickly purple color, reminds me exactly of the time I drank most of a fifth of Jager as well as a few glasses of vodka and rum and the puddle I woke up in later that night. AKA that time I had a hangover. At least that was the only stupid thing I did in my early 20s.

I think Dwight Yoakam's cover of Purple Rain is really good.

Furious_E wrote:

The_Jed wrote: A friend and co-worker has been dealing with severe back pain and a nasty cough for a very long time. He finally relented and saw a doctor about 1 1/2 weeks ago. Over this past week the prognosis has gone from adverse reaction to meds then to lung and liver cancer then finally today I got word that it's stage 4 terminal cancer with "too many lesions to count". The doctor told him he could make it 6 weeks or 1 year at most. He's 46. berkeley CANCER!!!!

berkeley man, sorry to hear that. I had a new manager that started earlier this year, who I very much liked and got along with, that came down with a bad cough, which eventually turned to a nagging case of pneumonia. After a few weeks his doctors got suspicious and ordered a full battery of testing to make sure nothing more was going on. Sure enough it turned out to be a very aggressive form of lung cancer. Fortunately, by sheer luck of him catching pneumonia, they caught it extremely early and he's doing well now after chemo. Scary E36 M3 though, I was pretty torn up about it for a while. He's 49 btw. Moral of the story though is don't wait to get yourself checked out if something doesn't feel right. Cancer can be dealt with if caught early enough. Good luck to your friend and berkeley cancer.

I was diagnosed with intestinal cancer earlier this year. Totally out of the blue, no symptoms, no pain. It got pick d up in a colonoscopy that I was actually a couple of years too young to have but my doctor sent me since she only sees me about every 4 years or so. It was caught early and I'm good now but talk about a shock. Bottom line, see your doc on a regular basis.