Random Thoughts That Don't Warrant Their Own Thread: 2024

Do you want great clips or super cuts?

 

We sure that’s not AT-lanna?

 

Yes

 

It was $12

 

You get what you pay for.

 

Haha yea. She was a white.

Was chatting up random people and her own grandkids were ignoring her

 

Did I not imply that in my post? I was trying to imply that in my post.

 

Do you guys have your cars serviced and repaired at the dealership or random places?

 

Dealership while it's under warranty and then I go to other random places because dealerships kind of rip you off on service

 

I always did dealership.

Funny story - whatever the first major service is I took my truck in to Studio City Nissan and drop it off and just go home and don't think about it.

I check in on it the next morning and it had gotten confused with another vehicle and was now in further north California to get a sunroof installed.

"Ok, so I have a sunroof now or what?"

Please come to the dealership we are handling this right now and will get you set up in a rental.

The GM felt so bad about the situation they gave me free gas and service for I believe around 4 years.

If I would have just left things alone I would have been the proud new owner of a sunroof.

 

Meh, non factory installed sunroofs always leak


Hell. Half the factory installed ones to do

My favorite was my wife's Infiniti
It didn't actually leak, but there was a hose that was part of the drain system for the sunroof that came loose somehow behind a panel on the passenger side up under the dash.
The way we figured it out was by hearing sizzling from what ever electronics it would dump water onto while riding through a car wash
Googled it and it was a pretty well known issue. Fucking Nissan never did anything about it

 

Do people normally use their sunroof? I have 2 vehicles with them and I've used them maybe twice. I don't get why they're standard on so many trim models

 

If we are talking about a sedan it’s really the only effective way to install a belt fed .50 cal

 

My parents got a new Mercedes SUV and I think they've had to replace the windshield approximately 3 times within maybe a year.

Apparently the windshields don't do well with humidity and they live basically in a swamp.

 

They’re built in a swamp…aka Tuscaloosa County.

 

Not well enough apparently.

 

Had a Volvo that had some sort of drainage hose leak from the sunroof. Water bubbled of from the floor on rear passenger side. Huge pain in the ass.

 

Designed by Germans though

 

Not the only thing about Tuscalooser that isn’t well enough!

 

I always rent a convertible if ones available and the weathers nice but I don’t think I would own one unless it was a second car or something.

 

Sounds like GFA needs some CBT.. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

 

Traveled to the in-laws for FIL’s 70th bday.

When we got here at about 11:30, the in-laws were watching the movie Hachi. I was familiar with the statute in Shibyua and its general backstory, but I had never seen or heard of the Americanized telling.

I don’t think I’ve teared up like that to a movie in 30+ years. We don’t deserve dogs

Spoiler

This may belong in the FIL thread

 

I’ve never had a leaky sunroof.

 

Ash my cig out the sunroof

 

Smart

 

Do you still smoke?

 

No, just trying to have a cool e-persona.

Back in the aughts in my buddy's Acura though, ooh boy

 

Everyone knows TC blows mad vape clouds now

 

Had friends over last Friday and the dude smokes like a fucking chimney. I always want to ask him what he spends on smokes. Has to be like 10 grand a year.

 

A lot but that’s prob an overestimate, unless he’s a pack a day and packs are $27

 

I can't imagine still smoking in the year 2024.

 

I have no idea how people afford to smoke

 

$9 a day, $275 a month, 1 year @ 5.0% = $3,384 in savings

 

THANKS BIDEN

 

I picked up smoking cigarettes this year

 

I like a faint waft of a cig. Doesn’t happen much here, probably can go a month without smelling one. Go anywhere in Europe and you can pretty much smoke a pack a day for free, everyone smokes.

 

Yeah, Id say at the rate he burns has to be at least a pack, probably 2. I’d say 5 grand is a better estimate.

 

What's always surprised me is every country except the US has awful images on their cigarette packs to discourage new smokers -- people talking thru a hole in their throat, pictures of lungs, missing half their face. Not here though because we're free, baby.

I seem to remember there was a push to put those images on US packs for like a month or so, but they got pulled with the quickest.

 

Langhorne Slim is so freaking good

 

The people who sit in a 6+ deep car line for gas at Costco are complete psychos.

 

Never have gotten gas there, do you accumulate points and get a bigger discount if you save up or is it just generally cheaper than other gas stations if you're a member?