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Blue Footed Booby posted:The one person like this I've ever run into died in a car accident. He was doing fine until you came along
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Cojawfee posted:Now imagine you have a brother in law who just doesn't want to wear a seat belt. They make latches without a belt that plug into the socket to make it shut up. Supposedly for cops who don't want to wear a seatbelt for either fitment issues over gear, or the need to exit the car quickly (which they will also do in the case of an accident, unwillingly...) evobatman posted:Turning the car off twice, a perfectly normal thing. I restarted it ONCE and decided this wasn't for me. I have cars that won't let you have the keys until you turn them off all the way. I'm OK with that. except for the AE86, on which the key - singular- is so worn it almost falls out regardless of key position. It took me a week to figure out why the radio was staying on. It's because it's a manual, and you have to do the extra thing to actually get the key to "off", and I was just going to accessory and removing the key.)
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my xj key comes right out when it's running I like it
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MrLogan posted:There are even people who still smoke cigs in TYOOL 2024 As he pulled up, noticed a guy outside the office smoking. Approached the door and smoking guy said "Oh, you must be Mr. Guywithappointment! I'm Joe, the advisor." Chatted for a minute and basically said something like "if you make such bad decisions for yourself that you still smoke in this day in age, I cannot trust you to make good decisions with my life savings." and left.
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Darchangel posted:Supposedly for cops who don't want to wear a seatbelt for either fitment issues over gear, or the need to exit the car quickly (which they will also do in the case of an accident, unwillingly...) Have some respect, that cop will have given his life so they can tack a murder charge on to the suspect of the high speed chase they instigated.
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Darchangel posted:They make latches without a belt that plug into the socket to make it shut up. Supposedly for cops who don't want to wear a seatbelt for either fitment issues over gear, or the need to exit the car quickly (which they will also do in the case of an accident, unwillingly...) I do the "we're not going anywhere until you put it on" thing in my car.
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slidebite posted:Not my personal story, but from a guy I know who said he had a relative that had an appointment with a financial advisor his bank set him up with. And they all clapped and went to yell at kids at Starbucks about how they can't afford a house because of their coffee purchases. tater_salad fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Apr 18, 2024 |
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tater_salad posted:And they all clapped and went to yell at kids at Starbucks about how they can't afford a house because of their coffee purchases. Then posted on facebook that millennials are destroying starbucks by making coffee at home to afford their mortgages instead of spending money at starbucks.
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Maybe he did? I don't know. Sounds assholish, especially since it obviously has nothing to do with someones slave to drug addiction, but I also get where its coming from... assuming it even happened.
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some dudes aren't chill bro
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Colostomy Bag posted:Last thing I'm going to trust is airbags/circuits/logic/sensors on a vehicle. The entire industry is a clusterfuck. What does this mean? You wouldn't wear a seat belt if airbags were more reliable? You rip them out of every car you buy???
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A touch late to the interlock chat but how about this: Not allowing wipers (auto or otherwise) to turn on while the drivers door is open when starting the car. Everyone who's ever lived in a snowy area knows the feeling of jumping in the car, door still open, to start it up and get defrosters going, only to have the snow on the windshield trigger the auto wipers and push a huge pile of snow over the a-pillar and into the car. Or say, you left the wipers on when you parked in the non-auto wiper example. CMON!!!
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Wild EEPROM posted:spray foam has taken over from the previous worst product for fixes, which was just household silicone. Actually household silicone works pretty well as a valve cover gasket, ask me how I know
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amenenema posted:A touch late to the interlock chat but how about this: Not allowing wipers (auto or otherwise) to turn on while the drivers door is open when starting the car. Everyone who's ever lived in a snowy area knows the feeling of jumping in the car, door still open, to start it up and get defrosters going, only to have the snow on the windshield trigger the auto wipers and push a huge pile of snow over the a-pillar and into the car. Or say, you left the wipers on when you parked in the non-auto wiper example. CMON!!! auto wipers in drive or reverse only would fix that, good idea
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Hondas (at least my 2017 accord and 2016 odyssey) have an interesting feature where if the wipers are set to intermittent, they will always initiate at least one full sweep when you come off the brake from a stop. The rear wiper will turn on continuously if the front wipers are on at any speed / frequency and you shift into reverse. Handy, but was confusing the first few times it happened.
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Oh one other auto wipers necessity - add a moisture sensor somewhere on the front of the car, not just the optical sensor on the glass. Drive for 50 miles in gnats or something and one big one triggers the wipers and smears them all over the glass. As pinpoints they're nearly invisible, but one swipe of the wipers converts them to a lens covered in Vaseline.
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Spirit AeroSystems strikes again!
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Is this why they laid a bunch of people off by just Disabling badges at midnight? Night shift guys really got a shock trying to come back in from a 2am smoke break.
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When I activate the windshield cleaner spray on my Toyota it will spray fluid on the window, run the wipers through three cycles, wait 5 seconds for the windshield to dry, then run the wipers an extra cycle. Annoying as hell if I'm not trying to use the spray in rainy weather.
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:When I activate the windshield cleaner spray on my Toyota it will spray fluid on the window, run the wipers through three cycles, wait 5 seconds for the windshield to dry, then run the wipers an extra cycle. Annoying as hell if I'm not trying to use the spray in rainy weather. It's called a courtesy wipe. Some manufacturers let you turn that off through the cluster or whatever.
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I hate the courtesy wipe. It re-smears the windscreen.
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If it needs another pass, I can bump the stalk to the momentary “mist” position.
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I have no idea what vehicle this applies to or how old it is… Can I drive my Pinto or not?
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namlosh posted:I have no idea what vehicle this applies to or how old it is… It’s the CYBERTRVCK. 
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when the pool heater breaks
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oh my god, are they putting chlorinated water all through the water jackets? 
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On a Mitsubishi? Not for very long, I'd imagine
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If it is someone dumb enough to run pool water through their engine, it's probably someone dumb enough to not know their pool needs chemicals.
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Raluek posted:oh my god, are they putting chlorinated water all through the water jackets? they've probably got a junkyard radiator in the pool.
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After finding a leak in the radiator...the owner proceeds to add 55 gallons of Stop Leak to the pool.
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Raluek posted:oh my god, are they putting chlorinated water all through the water jackets? No, it's not a chlorinated pool. It's saltwater 
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GD_American posted:No, it's not a chlorinated pool. 
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Raluek posted:oh my god, are they putting chlorinated water all through the water jackets? i suck at chemistry why would this be bad?
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Arson Daily posted:i suck at chemistry why would this be bad? Their engine will rapidly rust from the inside.
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Arson Daily posted:i suck at chemistry why would this be bad? Chlorine eats aluminum(cylinder heads) and rusts iron(block) quite quickly, espcially in the presence of heat.
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Powershift posted:Chlorine eats aluminum(cylinder heads) and rusts iron(block) quite quickly, espcially in the presence of heat. Go to the pool supply aisle of any major retailer and, if they stock the tabs on flat metal or wire shelving, you'll find it rusted to gently caress wherever the coating has worn off. As an aside, that why chlorine tablets are usually stacked up on a pallet. This is also why bleach containers usually come in boxes that you can take the top and front off for display (PDQ). Horrible mechanical failure: I worked at a store that kept loose bleach bottles on metal shelving that could hardly support the weight. The shelves were rusted to poo poo, so I made it my mission one day to swap them out for less lovely shelves. Got all the bleach moved off and the first 4ft. shelf I lifted sheared off every one if it's retaining tabs with a dry, crumbling sound. I guess bleach had spilled into the slots for years on end and rusted the tabs and slot together. For the uninitiated, that kind of shelving has squared off hook-like tabs, facing up, that engage into slots in the fixture itself. The tabs apply force to the top of the slot and a buttress on either side support the shelf from the bottom by resting on rails the containing said slot. One bump into those shelves, hard enough to lever them up a bit, would probably have resulted in hundreds of pounds of bleach bottles cascading down on the person who smacked the fixture. My reward for catching that was having to install a whole new fixture. I accomplished nothing else that shift.
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madeintaipei posted:... This is also why bleach containers usually come in boxes that you can take the top and front off for display (PDQ). Where do they do this? This is how bleach is found on store shelves everywhere I've been in the US: 
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Where do they do this? This is how bleach is found on store shelves everywhere I've been in the US: Independent grocery stores mostly, because they can be a bit more creative in how they display things vs., say, Walmart or Publix. Save-A-Lot really likes keeping things in PDQ's, as an example of a chain that uses them often. More companies used to do this, but have moved away from it. You will always have a few singles and keeping boxes on the shelf fucks with spacing on those. It looks kinda... eh. That exact bottle of bleach you posted comes 6 to a case, with perforations to tear out the front/front-top. You tear the case open and slide the entire thing on the shelf. Another display procedure is to stack these on a teeny little plastic pallet (stack base) or plastic soda carrier turned upside down, with only the top box opened. As it sells down, you add a case and tear it open, add a case and tear it open, until the inventory sells down enough that you can take what's left in singles and pop them in partial cases on the shelf. I like PDQs. They keep the shelf neat, rotating product is easy (remove old box, add new box, replace old box towards the front), moving product to the front of the shelf is easy, and it prevents round product from escaping it's assigned area when moved. Thank you for attending my TED talk.
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Powershift posted:Chlorine eats aluminum(cylinder heads) and rusts iron(block) quite quickly, espcially in the presence of heat. yes ha ha ha yes!
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