New German cars are like some crazy Tetris game of fitting as much shit into as little soace as possible. Need to get at that water pump? 4 hours of disassembly of surrounding parts. I used to love working on my old 911. 4 bolts and you could drop the whole engine, and stupidly simple access to everything. Now, not so much.
I am pretty sure my dad said the same thing about the old vw's. lay under the car drop the engine on your body and roll the creeper from under the car.
Yep... rear engine meant there was no exhaust to worry about... it all came out with the engine. 4 bolts, fuel line, oil line, power lines, throttle cable, the 2 rear half-shafts, and that was all she wrote. Swapping engines for a race vs fun track day took an hour. It was awesome.
I'm not sure why I never connected the two. Just learned that the Duff Man character Was inspired by by Duff McKagan. He of the notorious 8-bottles-of-wine-a-day habit turned literal panaceas explosion fame. And something he did with Guns N Roses.
For some reason I imagine we’d all get along just fine. I mean, the roommates are fucked, but that’s their problem. If someone decorated my living space like a hallmark shop, they’d be getting novelty size dildos in the mail as fast as amazon could deliver it.
My cousin is in his 4th “Facebook Official” relationship this year and going hard- rose petals spread out with flowers all over her house on FB. He wants me to double date with him this weekend and to be honest I’m exhausted from it. It’s petty to say I get tired of meeting his new girlfriends but it’s getting old. Especially as much overboard as he goes every time. I have a theory that the more someone promotes their relationship on FB, the quicker it’ll end. I dunno, maybe I’m being crotchety.
When you meet her, go up to her and plant a heavy kiss on her, tongue and all. Right in front of him and your date. Assert with a power move.
I have definitely noticed that with the couples who have been married awhile. If they start projecting hard on Facebook about how wonderful their relationship is, a divorce or separation is around the corner.
This is kind of hilarious and sad: https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs...PsTYecBMFPBc3OCWfU_GMcZvEz1pCG4pZ65nxTdMhx_DY
The John Fitzgerald Page of the music industry. Talk about delusional: you created yourself a fan base by simply imagining that it existed. Kudos on the social media manipulation, its too bad for him the denouement was inevitable. And his music SUCKS just so we are clear.
The John Fitzgerald Page saga was one of the best things to occur on RMMB. So much god damn cringe. I originally thought he was riffing on the whole Alexy Vayner thing.
When that guy wrote his “list” of qualifications and posted the photos of his “acting ability” was one of the greatest things in human history. He thought being a background extra on a game show qualified as starring on film and TV. He’s a fucking MENSA member too, so back off bitch. Ladies....
Driving a BMW, quite possibly the douchiest of cars, and a piece of shit as well. Seriously, I'm SHOCKED when we get a BMW into the shop that 1) Doesn't have the check engine light on, and or 2) Doesn't have a bad oil leak. What I was complaining about (that time, anyway) was the electrical/ electronic systems on those cars. Their fuse boxes are never labeled, and the same model of car might have several different fuse box layouts; most of their software is proprietary, meaning that there is a lot of diagnostic tests that I can't run with my Snap On scanner; they all seem to have those shitty electrical connectors that break whenever you take them off; you can't erase trouble codes on some of them without a dealership scan tool. I really wonder if those cars are actually any easier to work on even with the manufacturer's scan tool. Then there's other things, like the fact that they don't have dipsticks anymore (which is really fucking stupid, given German cars' propensity to leak oil like a goddam sieve), and of course, they build them like fucking Rubik's cubes. I can't take credit for this quote, but it's amazing: "Whenever I see a German car come into the shop, I feel like someone just handed me a briefcase with a red LED display counting down on it."
My 911 was pre-computer. All wires had unique colouring that exactly matched the huge, pullout, full colour wiring schematics in my factory manuals. It was fucking glorious.
I drive a mid-2000s Saturn. It had this neat thing for a while where the computer would freak out and turn everything off. I spent more than a month driving exclusively in the right lane so that I could coast to a stop until they could finally give me a firmware update that appears to have fixed the problem.
I’ve been getting drunk with the neighbors since roughly 4pm. There’s been some hilarity involving a skateboard, fireworks and vodka. Good times. Also I’ve agreed to get a tattoo tomorrow. Let’s see if sober me thinks that drunk me had a good idea....