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dissss posted:Isn't that a Kia Soul? Kinda small. It's a Fiat 500L. Edit: Oh you're right. My bad. Kia Soul Enthusias fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Jan 4, 2017 |
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Cross post from the Schadenfreude thread. Sovereign Citizen? That's a tazin'
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Memento posted:Cross post from the Schadenfreude thread. oh jesus christ
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Memento posted:Cross post from the Schadenfreude thread. Makes me want to go watch the sovcit vs cops YouTube again.
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Jan 4, 2017 23:52
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at least dude has the decency to put an "I'm a loving loon" plate on his car so anyone around knows exactly what the gently caress they are dealing with..
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Jan 4, 2017 23:55
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CommieGIR posted:Makes me want to go watch the sovcit vs cops YouTube again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pBougV1JK4
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Imagined posted:I worked at 7-Eleven for a couple of years. Our prices were entirely based on the prices of the three nearest competing stores. A manager or someone else in the company would drive by a competitor, and whatever their price was, we'd go two cents lower. They would often respond in kind, and then a mini price war would result. The price could change ten times a day. It had little to do with the cost of gas. The gas is basically a loss leader to get people to buy coffee and soda. AFAIK basically nobody makes money by selling gas. A guy we race with comes from a family that owns a few gas stations locally and he was telling us the same thing. For the most part gas is priced as low as it possibly can be just to get people in the store for Red Bulls and poo poo.
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bigbillystyle posted:A guy we race with comes from a family that owns a few gas stations locally and he was telling us the same thing. For the most part gas is priced as low as it possibly can be just to get people in the store for Red Bulls and poo poo. I figure this has got to be why so many chains are advertising their coffee and food selections pretty hard now. Almost everywhere has pay at the pump, so there's no longer a reason to go inside and be tempted by 3 chocolate bars for $3.33 or whatever. Seems like gas stations collectively shot themselves in the foot and created a catch-22: install pay at the pump machines, and nobody wants to come inside to buy the things they actually make money on, or don't install them, and then everyone just goes down the street to the place that does.
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^^ Exactly thins. I used to buy gas station coffee and snacks, but rarely venture inside. Smokes, beef jerky and lotto tickets are all still inside though.
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Jan 5, 2017 09:16
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EKDS5k posted:Almost everywhere has pay at the pump, so there's no longer a reason to go inside and be tempted by 3 chocolate bars for $3.33 or whatever. Seems like gas stations collectively shot themselves in the foot and created a catch-22: install pay at the pump machines, and nobody wants to come inside to buy the things they actually make money on, or don't install them, and then everyone just goes down the street to the place that does. In Australia very few places have pay at the pump. Sites knowingly take a hit with petrol thefts because what they lose is covered by insurance and their insurance costs are more than covered by shop sales. Fuel thefts are so bad that the police in Victoria publicly came out and stated they would no longer follow up on them. They're pretty much, "You guys can stop this happening overnight but you're too greedy to do so. We're no longer going to waste our time with your bullshit."
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Gorilla Salad posted:In Australia very few places have pay at the pump. Sites knowingly take a hit with petrol thefts because what they lose is covered by insurance and their insurance costs are more than covered by shop sales. Depending on the area here in Canada, pay at the pump is mandatory. In my area, however, it isn't, and a lot of gas stations hold the employees responsible for gas thefts and illegally dock their pay. That's how you turn gas theft into manslaughter, because it's happened more than once that the employee loses their life as a result 
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Jan 5, 2017 15:42
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When I was at uni in the 90s I worked a lot of poo poo jobs, including at petrol stations. More than one tried that poo poo. The first time I just stole back the dollar equivalent from them. Later, at other sites, I just threatened to call the ombudsman. loving terrible that poo poo still goes on.
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       I guess if 1 is good, 3 must be better.
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DefaultPeanut posted:^^ Exactly thins. I used to buy gas station coffee and snacks, but rarely venture inside. Smokes, beef jerky and lotto tickets are all still inside though. Most Norwegian chains sell free-refill insulated coffee mugs valid for a year - I assume that's mostly to pull people inside the doors.
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Gorilla Salad posted:In Australia very few places have pay at the pump. Sites knowingly take a hit with petrol thefts because what they lose is covered by insurance and their insurance costs are more than covered by shop sales. Mobil has put pay at the pump back in in NZ and weirdly it has a 6c/l discount over paying in the store Not that it's a real discount, every chain has some sort of loyalty or discount scheme so 6c is about the least you'd expect.
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Shell in Germany has their clubsmart thing which guarantees that you'll only pay 2 cent per liter more than the cheapest gas station in the area! I still can't believe people sign up for that...
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Powershift posted:I guess if 1 is good, 3 must be better. It's nice they colour-coded the how-not-to guide.
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Powershift posted:
I've seen lots of cheap-rear end racing guys (mostly Volvo owners and GRM $201x challengers) double up on swaybars. The math works out there at least.
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cakesmith handyman posted:It's nice they colour-coded the how-not-to guide. Just trying to help forensics piece together what happened when they flip it over on the highway and spew debris everywhere.
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EKDS5k posted:I figure this has got to be why so many chains are advertising their coffee and food selections pretty hard now. Almost everywhere has pay at the pump, so there's no longer a reason to go inside and be tempted by 3 chocolate bars for $3.33 or whatever. Seems like gas stations collectively shot themselves in the foot and created a catch-22: install pay at the pump machines, and nobody wants to come inside to buy the things they actually make money on, or don't install them, and then everyone just goes down the street to the place that does. Some stations have a lower price (few cents/gal) for cash customers versus their credit price, I'm assuming to get people inside the store. Great idea, now there are cars blocking all the pumps while the fuckwits go stand in line to save $0.50/tank. 
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dissss posted:Mobil has put pay at the pump back in in NZ and weirdly it has a 6c/l discount over paying in the store Mobil had the CRIPS system in Australia, too. However, Mobil no longer exists in Australia. They sold off every single one of their stores, mostly to 7/11.
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So David Spade got into a car accident. Apparently "1 of his rear tires went flying about 100 feet" How fast was the car going that it ripped the wheel off like that? Or is there some flaw in the bolts that would cause them to break like that?
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God is still apologizing for taking Chris Farley.
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Rhyno posted:God is still apologizing for taking Chris Farley. I agree...but his story about his 'assistant' trying to kill him is one of the funniest loving stories ever, if you can find him retelling it. I think he did it on Rogans podcast.
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iwentdoodie posted:I agree...but his story about his 'assistant' trying to kill him is one of the funniest loving stories ever, if you can find him retelling it. I think he did it on Rogans podcast. It was on WTF. And yeah, loving great story.
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HandlingByJebus posted:It was on WTF. I knew it was one of the two. Either way it was loving amazing, and the hardest I've ever laughed at anything he's said.
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This is the episode but it's behind a paywall. http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_669_-_david_spade I assume if you googled "wtf David Spade" You would find someone had uploaded it to some manner of Tube site.
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MetaJew posted:Someone post a link to it, already! https://youtu.be/Nb_Wt4y7q4M It's somewhere in here. I'd find a time stamp for you, but I'm way too lazy for that. Just skip past his intro for your own sanity.
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Guys, I think it was time for an oil change. http://i.imgur.com/iwGXyca.mp4
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KozmoNaut posted:Guys, I think it was time for an oil change. I'm making the same face I did when my high school physics teacher showed us liquid mercury for the first time.
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See I thought it was flowing at first and now I'm not sure it is at all... Gonna need to fire some chemicals through that engine to get all that out, wow.
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redgubbinz posted:Some stations have a lower price (few cents/gal) for cash customers versus their credit price, I'm assuming to get people inside the store. Great idea, now there are cars blocking all the pumps while the fuckwits go stand in line to save $0.50/tank. Was at an 8 pump station a few days ago. Seven pumps are occupied by cars with no-one in them or around them, the eighth one is sitting in her car typing on her phone. Three cars driving in circles waiting for a free pump. 
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MrYenko posted:Was at an 8 pump station a few days ago. Seven pumps are occupied by cars with no-one in them or around them, the eighth one is sitting in her car typing on her phone. Three cars driving in circles waiting for a free pump. Card reader down; please see cashier (or it's in an area where 1/3 of the pop. doesn't have a bank account, much less a credit card) 2-4 minutes wait in line with everyone buying beer, cigs, picking lottery tickets to pre-pay the pump 2 minutes pump gas 2-4 minutes wait in line with everyone buying beer, cigs, picking lottery tickets to get change
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There are so many gas stations out there, if I see one busy I just roll a couple blocks to the next one. 
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Back when I was working at a servo - I asked "why not have gates like a tollbooth in front of all pumps that lifted when paid for?' It still seems a good idea to me but whatever.
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iwentdoodie posted:https://youtu.be/Nb_Wt4y7q4M ok i'm giving this a shot but honest question is marc maron actually diagnosed as retarded?
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BraveUlysses posted:ok i'm giving this a shot but honest question is marc maron actually diagnosed as retarded? Marc is an acquired taste. He's actually a fantastic interviewer and generally interesting dude. e: I am not Marc Maron HandlingByJebus fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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iwentdoodie posted:https://youtu.be/Nb_Wt4y7q4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb_Wt4y7q4M&feature=youtu.be&t=1h20m 1 hour 20 minutes in if the link doesn't want to work right. e; Story was great/insane REDjackeT fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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