Topic: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread (Read 934537 times)

BizB · « **Reply #3525 on:** July 31, 2008, 05:14:23 PM »

What time is it on the moon?

Demosthenes · « **Reply #3526 on:** July 31, 2008, 05:19:01 PM »

Right now? 11:19 PM. The moon goes by GMT.

EDIT:

Nope, I stand corrected. Apparently there's a Lunar Standard Time.

xolik · « **Reply #3527 on:** August 01, 2008, 04:57:46 PM »

This looks like a damn cool thing:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

I must confess to reading it at first as "Large Hardon Collider."

Demosthenes · « **Reply #3528 on:** August 01, 2008, 05:31:39 PM »

Quote from: xolik on August 01, 2008, 04:57:46 PM

I must confess to reading it at first as "Large Hardon Collider."

That's a completely different area of physics, I think.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3529 on:** August 02, 2008, 11:24:30 AM »

okay, so my 2001 nissan altima has been acting up for several months- rough idling, mostly. phyre, who's a mechanic, finally came here from richmond in june and experienced what the car was doing and said it was likely some sort of misfire and i should have my spark plugs replaced.

well, i did about a month later (he didn't have time to do it while he was here), and it cost me around $80. there was no improvement in the car whatsoever. i told the ex this, and he said to have the spark plug wires replaced next, and if that didn't do the trick, to have a "proper diagnosis" done on the car. fine.

when i took the car back to the shop and reiterated my problem, they said they'd let me know what they discovered. they called several hours later, and said my spark plug wires were burnt in spots, so they needed to be replaced (which, obviously, i had been expecting), but also that the car needed a tune up too. total cost, including $85 diagnostic fee, spark plug wires, and labor? $360 plus tax. goddamn.

but the best part? IT DIDN'T FIX THE PROBLEM. their next "solution" was a fuel injection cleaning. another $100. i dropped the car off tuesday night (i'm off work wednesdays, so i figured it was the best day to be without a car), and wednesday around 4 pm, i still hadn't heard from them. what the fuck? so i called. they had "just gotten" the car on the lift. seriously? they opened at EIGHT am.

guy calls back about an hour later. the fuel injection cleaning is done, but the problem hasn't gone away. he doesn't know what else it can be, so he's going to have some special somebody from somewhere come down to the shop in the morning to try to diagnose the problem. translation: i now have no ride to work or home thursday, and i'm now looking at much more money.

thursday. i call on my lunch break at work. they're "still looking." great. it's already 1 pm. 2-something, i get a voicemail from them. i call back. the girl at the counter says they have good news and bad news, which anyone knows is NEVER good news. okay, the good news? they found the problem. the bad news? i have a leak in my intake gasket. total cost, including 5 hours of labor? another $400. nice.

fast forward to friday night. where is my car? NOT HERE. i hadn't heard from them all day, so i called at 4. the job was taking longer than he expected, but he was trying to have the car done that day. it took everything in me to not flip the fuck out: the only reason you wouldn't have had the car done is if you DIDN'T START WORKING ON IT FRIDAY MORNING AS PROMISED. you put it off, even though you've inconvenienced me for SEVERAL days and cost me much more money than you should have with all your false diagnoses.

today is my work picnic at hershey park. guess who couldn't go because, once again, she doesn't have a car? yep. me. also, i had plans to see a friend before he left for north carolina for two weeks, but that didn't happen either due to the car issue. i promised two little girls i used to babysit that i would take them swimming friday, but- you guessed it- i had no car to take them.

two mechanics i've talked to since said the intake should've been the first thing this guy looked at considering my car's.. symptoms. and i googed "intake gasket leak" on altimas, and apparently this is a really common problem. so why did he not know to look for it?

in case it wasn't obvious, i'm finding a new mechanic.

12AX7 · « **Reply #3530 on:** August 02, 2008, 01:25:48 PM »

Quote from: ydnamtnediserp on August 02, 2008, 11:24:30 AM

so why did he not know to look for it?

Truthfully? He did know; but he also knew you didn't. That's usually good for a few hundred at least. Sorry to hear your luck.

RelandR · « **Reply #3531 on:** August 02, 2008, 02:44:19 PM »

Concur.

Even if he didn't know enough to consider the intake a likely place to look at first, certainly at the point of the 'Diagnostic' being performed he would have seen a huge drop in vacuum in the stats and could have been on the right track tuesday, before much of the 'trial and error' fixes.

By all rights, your bill should have been the $400 for the intake + $85 diagnostic and finished by Wed. evening.

I'd contact the Bureau of Automotive Affairs.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3532 on:** August 02, 2008, 03:54:15 PM »

thanks, guys. i finally got my car back and it's running wonderfully. i know i should pursue this, but i'm just so relieved at this point to have one less thing on my plate, that i may just let it go.

regardless, i won't go back there.

dcrog · « **Reply #3533 on:** August 02, 2008, 05:23:13 PM »

And also be thankful that the intake wasn't cracked when they took it off.

12AX7 · « **Reply #3534 on:** August 02, 2008, 06:31:57 PM »

Quote from: dcrog on August 02, 2008, 05:23:13 PM

And also be thankful that the intake wasn't cracked when they took it off.

Yeh, or after.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3535 on:** August 03, 2008, 01:43:54 PM »

yeah, it definitely could have been worse.

moving on.

student punished for spaghetti beliefs

12AX7 · « **Reply #3536 on:** August 03, 2008, 01:51:35 PM »

Haha! Go Killian.

RelandR · « **Reply #3537 on:** August 03, 2008, 02:15:55 PM »

Cheezus, that's great.

RelandR · « **Reply #3538 on:** August 03, 2008, 02:35:11 PM »

Moving on to a buzz killing note, This is so fucking Orwellian, I want to puke.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3539 on:** August 03, 2008, 02:58:14 PM »

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3540 on:** August 03, 2008, 03:00:37 PM »

also, nude man charged with having sex with table.

RelandR · « **Reply #3541 on:** August 03, 2008, 03:34:46 PM »

Haha ... Thanks. I needed that.

Nothing brings back the good humor like the fluid spewing goodness of nekid table secks.

dcrog · « **Reply #3542 on:** August 03, 2008, 04:06:42 PM »

Pics or it didn't happen.

Was it a sexy looking table?

It was probably asking for it.

/fark.com

12AX7 · « **Reply #3543 on:** August 03, 2008, 09:52:20 PM »

*!!*UPDATE*!!*

TAWDRY TABLE TAPPER GETS OFF IN FRONT OF ASTOUNDED COURTROOM!

. . . I'm havening seconded thoughts about having my wood ...stained.

sociald1077 · « **Reply #3544 on:** August 03, 2008, 11:54:32 PM »

Stitches feel weird. I want to play with them, but I know I shouldn't.

12AX7 · « **Reply #3545 on:** August 04, 2008, 05:19:09 AM »

Quote from: sociald1077 on August 03, 2008, 11:54:32 PM

Stitches feel weird. I want to play with them, but I know I shouldn't.

HA! I'm the same way. What happened?

12AX7 · « **Reply #3546 on:** August 04, 2008, 05:19:34 AM »

Last night my daughter and I were sitting in
the den and I said to her,
"I never want to live in a vegetative state,
dependent on some machine and fluids from a
bottle to keep me alive. That would be no
quality of life at all... if that ever happens,
just pull the plug."

So she got up, unplugged the computer,
and threw out my wine.

She's such a bitch.

sociald1077 · « **Reply #3547 on:** August 04, 2008, 12:54:54 PM »

Quote from: 12AX7 on August 04, 2008, 05:19:09 AM

HA! I'm the same way. What happened?

I had a tumor removed from over my tail bone. And I just found out today that my health insurance might not cover one cent of it because they do not cover treatment of "non-malignant warts, moles or leisions."

*Will edit later for spelling.

BizB · « **Reply #3548 on:** August 04, 2008, 01:54:14 PM »

Carbonite...

I keep hearing these ads on the radio for carbonite.com trying to sell their online data backup solution. Every time, they have some poor sap talking about how on Tuesday they signed up for carbonite's services. Then, just two days later they lost all their data! It was okay, though. They were able to recover all their lost data thanks to carbonite.

Kind of makes you wonder how carbonite blows up people's hard drives two days after install.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #3549 on:** August 04, 2008, 08:29:36 PM »

They'd have better luck with Corbomite.

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