car SUCKS! i HATE car - The April 2018 Chat Thread

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nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.

Hit a milestone today, though:

Looks like you got another half million miles to go before you have something truly worth bragging about. Get to it.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2018 06:20

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 00:43

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:

Jesus gently caress, the past 24 hours have been beyond hosed.

Found out last week my apt complex had been sold. Okay, fine, they give me login info for their new payment system. I take off out of town to spend time with the gf. Log in today to pay my rent.

Wait.. why is my rent higher? Call the office. "We're raising everyone's rent to be in-line with market rent". DAFUQ? Ask them about my lease. "We don't care about your lease". Tell them fine, I'll be moving out next week. "That'll be <insane amount specified in lease>". Ask them why, since they don't care about the lease. "We only don't care about the rent portion. Everything else is in effect." I mention it's the middle of the lease, they can't do that. <click> Call back a bit later from my work phone (different area code, shows a different name on landline caller ID). Same questions, different person. Same answers. Read my lease's paragraph about rent increases to them word for word (thankfully I had it on Dropbox, so I had it handy). They said "if that's true, bring it in today and we'll fix it, but that's not in your lease, I guarantee.". Said I was out of town, asked for a manager. <click>

Called their corporate office. Every option except for one gave a repeating "This mailbox is full This mailbox is full This mailbox is full This mailbox is full This mailbox is full This mailbox is full This mailbox is full This mailbox is full ". Left a message in another market's mailbox. Got a call back from the "area manager" an hour later. He demanded names of the people I spoke to (which I had), asked for my apt number, pulled up my lease, stated he has no clue why they told me that and "maybe they misread your lease" (they never asked for my name or apt #). Mentioned that to him. "Guess they were too lazy" was his answer. He claimed there was a carry over unpaid balance of <amount my lease went up>, but admitted "the ledgers <former management company> gave us are beyond hosed up - do you have receipts or bank statements to show you paid? I'll make this go away if you do". Told him yes, he gave me an email address. Sent receipts. Kept asking why I was told what I was, he couldn't answer. He finally admitted he was the new property manager, not area manager (knew he was calling from the property from caller ID anyway).

Got back in town... sewage was surrounding my building. There's even condoms floating in the dookiewater, and a cleanout cap is broken off in front of my stairs. Tried calling emergency maintenance. "This number is disconnected. Thank you for calling." Same message if I call the office.

The only good things that came today were plenty of sexytime before leaving Austin (how the gently caress do you middle aged guys keep up with a 40 yr old woman without half a bottle of viagra?!), dumping a lot of stuff in my new garage at the new place (seriously a lot bigger than I thought, AND has power for more than just the door opener - surprising for a detached apartment garage... GF's GarageFridge got moved in today, plenty of places to hang lighting and wire it in to the existing light socket, though I doubt the power will handle anything like a compressor), and the Saturd didn't give me any issues on the ~400 mile round trip, aside from kinda crappy mileage (30 mpg when it normally gives ~35 mpg on that trip, just confirming my suspicion that the ~200k O2 sensor is dying). GF and I both tried our cars in the garage... somehow her Matrix is shorter than the Saturd (I placed a wheel chock where my car would hit up front and still just barely clear the door by a couple of inches... she then pulled in, hit the chock, and I was able to easily walk around her car with the door closed), though the Saturd is wider. Tons of room to do anything that doesn't require an engine hoist. Pretty impressed with a garage that I expected to be barely big enough to open the car doors. Her current garage in the same complex is way, way bigger (you could park 2 cars back to back in it), but it's attached to a $1500/month 2 bedroom apartment that we really don't want to pay for (also, memories of her ex + she's been in that apt for 8 years). Her income isn't enough to qualify for the 2 bedroom on her own now that her ex is out of the picture, my credit is poo poo, and since I'm "self employed", I need 2 years of tax returns showing a pretty significant net income (when I take a shitload of deductions that bring my income far below the poverty line).

e: and now an ollllld ex is upset that I didn't call him while in town. I'm moving to Austin for a fresh start, to get away from all the drama that seems to follow me around (okay not quite rhyno levels, but I'm sick of Dallas in general, and really sick of a lot of people here)

Ok, I now have a reason to go to law school. No one has ever tried to pull this poo poo with me.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2018 18:47

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Enourmo posted:

A manhattan made from cheap vermouth and evan williams on the rocks in a solo cup is still a fancy cocktail, right

There are so many things wrong with this, but the most important is that a manhattan is made out with loving rye.
The other good thing about rye is that the cheap rye is old overholt which is loving solid for manhattans.

This comment is triggering me in so many ways. I've also been served manhattans on the rocks and that also annoys me, but not as much as a fancy cocktail place making a standard manhattan with bourbon or something.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2018 06:24

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Rhyno posted:

Have you considered boarding school?

Late term abortion.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2018 06:26

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Enourmo posted:

Just so we're clear, I got vermouth a while back for whatever reason, then decided to make something out of what i had on hand. I was not served this, except by myself.

E; also I honestly don't drink often and it's hard to justify having a well-stocked liquor selection

The proper way to use cheap vermouth is cooking.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2018 06:30

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Applebees Appetizer posted:

He'll be fine, he used to like Dora the Explorer at one point too and he grew out of that.

Now I get to look forward to his teen years

Sounds like he's well on his way to making cheap vermouth and evan williams "manhattans." Time for an intervention.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2018 06:43

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Generally, the way it works is that you get treatment from your insurance and then your insurance gets paid back from their insurance. You should also get your deductable.

If they call again, tell them not to call and to only contact your attorney is you haven't already. Don't delete any voicemails they leave.

Edit: are the cops involved? A H&R is actually treated like a pretty serious crime here if they can easily if who did it, which they can here.
If cops show up at garbage company, I bet they stfu.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2018 20:50

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Man, my local video store finally closed. I'd been going there for decades (well, except the 10 year gap when i didn't live here), though a lot less in recent years. Owned by an older couple who liked movies and apparently were just funding it out of pocket the last few years.
In the era of amazon and netflix, I understand exactly why it closed (which is why I didn't go there), but I'll miss browsing when I had nothing better to do. They had a pretty amazing selection too.
I'm impressed they lasted this long, but it sounds like they just liked owning a video store and had money from elsewhere.

This one makes me sad now:

nm fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Apr 9, 2018

# ¿ Apr 9, 2018 06:24

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Powershift posted:

The joke was about water wars. There's a national geographic documentary called "Water & Power: A California Heist" which kinda details how it has already started.

Basically, the people they put in charge of the water are also the people who own the biggest farm in California, and they decided that they need to grow almonds at 1 gallon of water per almond before the people who live in towns in the San Joaquin Valley get any.

So yeah, California can grow food right now. Once the water wars really kick off? probably not.

Most, likely all, of the water in the San Joaquin Valley comes from within California. It is shipped, but all internally. The water we take from Nevada and Arizona is mostly used to grow cotton in the desert because gently caress you. (They also grow other stuff, but most of the food is from the central valley.) Sure, some of the colorado goes to LA, but they also get water from Norcal and also, gently caress 'em.

edit: The concept that California doesn't have guns is hilarious and more of a product of watching fox news than living here. We basically make it mildly inconvenient for felons to buy AR-15s and suddenly we're loving England.

nm fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Apr 10, 2018

# ¿ Apr 10, 2018 05:44

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

everdave posted:

I think you were taking what I said wrong or I misunderstood, I thought this was a one on one cage match CA/TX. But all the best weapons and tech and money doesn�t mean you can crush a resistance AND WHY THE HELL ARE WE EVEN TALKING ABOUT THIS

We'll just nuke them from orbit. Ever heard of Lawrence Livermore and Jet Propulsion labs? Areojet isn't closing for a bit too. We also have some big Northrop and Lockheed operations We don't need no guns. Hell Lawrence Livermore probably can just aim a big laser at Texas.

Rhyno posted:

A dude we met in Monterey said his water bill was over $400 a month on average. That's just loving insane.

He probably lives on a massive estate with acres of manicured lawns. No one with a small yards is paying anywhere near that. Our water rates start low and go up when you start using lol amounts of water.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2018 05:56

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Maker Of Shoes posted:

my anecdote can beat up your anecdote

We also have better tacos.

now I just started the real war

# ¿ Apr 10, 2018 06:18

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Rhyno posted:

There's a taco truck here and the dude doesn't even speak english, his 14 year old kid handles the orders and money. Fuckin amazing poo poo.

This isn't actually what makes a taco good. Also, I'm trying to start poo poo with Texas.
A war with Indiana would just be too easy.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2018 06:41

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

STR got a job, posted details and got doxxed to the point that he didn't get the job.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2018 06:46

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Rhyno posted:

Dude I know got married yesterday and the roof of the venue split open and dumped a shitload of water on their ceremony.

He's kind of a lovely dude but I feel bad for his wife.

I sort of hope that goes on youtube though.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2018 23:55

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

So I was just on a southwest airlines flight.
The dude next to me refused to put his tray table down before take off and we had to return to the gate to kick him off. Fun times.
This was after a 30min airport shutdown for lightning (at smf, which is really uncommon).

# ¿ Apr 17, 2018 03:11

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

LloydDobler posted:

LOL I marvel at this. Like don't you have somewhere to go? As if the tray table is the important part of the flight? Not the, I don't know, flying someplace?

It's like the assholes that road rage all over you because they're in a huge hurry, but then when you flip them the bird they have time to pull over and fight.

I gave the FA my info in case the dude tried to gently caress with them after to claim it was a united drags passenger type thing.
Dude was grumpy already, full flight, he boarded last (said something was wrong with his boarding pass), and had to sit between two tall, broad shouldered dudes (window seat was a firefighter). He just decided to take it out on the fa.
This was a 1 hour flight ffs.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2018 04:14

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Rhyno posted:

Snowing on April 17th and people are losing their minds over it.

When I lived in Minnesota, I didn't take my snow tires off until may 1 and put them on mid-october.
People always gave me poo poo except the years ot snowed on april 25 or october 31. And we had one or the other once a year.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2018 18:33

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

KakerMix posted:

The hot and real take is this ready:
Get the hell out of Indiana.

Not an empty quote.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2018 17:37

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Dennis McClaren posted:

Are there any "bad" years, or years to avoid, when shopping for a fiat 500 Abarth?

I'd avoid 2008(2012 in murica)-2018 imho.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2018 21:04

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

The Door Frame posted:

Doesn't someone on here own 2 of them or something?

I wouldn't mind a 500c Abarth, myself

Eyebeem has at least one.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2018 22:09

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Powershift posted:

I managed to get my old samsung note 2 operational by cutting off a small tab and wedging in a battery from one of my older samsung phones with a few pennies.

How large of a fire should i expect?

Please stay at least 10mi away from me at all times. TIA.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2018 04:52

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Enourmo posted:

Today was my last lecture oh god i'm hyperventilating. Just some finals left and then I'm not a college student anymore. I'm not entirely convinced this is still real.

The real world sucks. Have fun.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2018 05:25

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Liquid Communism posted:

I don't bother replacing phones for ~5 years for this reason. By the time it's a substantial upgrade, it's worth it.

I still kind of like my s5, though it struggles a bit when I try to do too much.
Also, I can change the battery.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2018 06:44

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

slurry_curry posted:

^^^ Thats what it was like when I got my lexus. Went to the used dealer(high end one in bellevue as well), handed me the keys to the car, test drove it, agreed on a price(~$2k under asking) in about 5 minutes, came back the next day with a cashiers check and took it home. Probably one of the best used car dealers I have dealt with. Only reason I had to wait till the next day is because I drove out there alone and didn't want to leave my miata there over night.

I forgot that I went to Lexus dealer to get a new key, since it only came with 1 "master" key and it was in rough shape. Had to drive to the Lexus dealer in bellevue(just down the street from the MB dealer), since for some reason Lexus of Seattle wanted $50 more for the key. Huge fancy dealership, giant waiting area with comfortable chars/tables/couches/etc. It was packed and they still had me out of there in under an hour and I showed up without an appointment. I have heard great things about Lexus dealers from a few different people. I just wish all their new cars didn't look so god awful.

Lexus dealers are so amazingly good.

My mazda dealer (In Elk grove, CA), which also owns the Infiniti dealer my dad uses, is somehow also excellent, though that isn't part for the course for either of those makes. The Mazda dealer even has someone know knows about rotaries and fixed some really obscure issue on my brother's RX8 no one else could figure out. I'll probably stop using them when the warranty is up (just because of cost), but they're really pretty good. My brother keeps going there because no one else it this town seems to know about spiny triangles, and I'm pretty sure my dad doesn't care how much it costs to keep his 200k+ mi M35 going because he like the car and the dealer so much.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2018 02:33

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 00:43

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Rhyno posted:

My brother's sick. It might be pretty serious.

I'm having a very hard time putting my aside anger at him for what he pulled the day before my wedding. I'm not enjoying how this is making me feel. But if it turns out he just has an STD from banging a hooker I'm going to be even angrier at him.

What did you do in a prior life?

# ¿ Apr 29, 2018 02:16

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