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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

SiempreTuna said:
Absolutely - do NOT accept the offer: the insurance company is trying it on :mad:. Write them back - if you can afford it, have a lawyer write the letter for you.

Years ago, some eejit lost control of his car when speeding down my street, hit a car parked in front of mine shunting it into mine, then he span off and demolished the garden wall. I wasn't even in the country at the time - nice news to greet me when I got home.

Couple of weeks later, the eejit's insurance company - also eejits - wrote to me demanding payment for the damage to the eejits car and the car that he shunted into mine because - according to them - the accident had been my fault! :eek:

Needless to say, I demurred .. :D
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How dare you park your car where it could be hit by random crashers-by? :rolleyes:

UEFI is grinding my gears something awful right now...Secure Boot only means Microsoft wins... for the moment. I (and Linux) will prevail!

Also, what is with my computer continually lapsing to zulu time? I am in the Pacific zone, not freakin' Greenwich!
 
Dngrsone said:
How dare you park your car where it could be hit by random crashers-by? :rolleyes:
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I don't know what I was thinking ..

Dngrsone said:
what is with my computer continually lapsing to zulu time? I am in the Pacific zone, not freakin' Greenwich!
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It clearly knows that the truth is, time is British and as George Mikes* famously pointed out, mere geography does not change the truth.




* an Hungarian immigrant to the UK who hated it so much he wrote a book called How to be an Alien describing all the things he hated about the UK which immediately became a huge hit .. in the UK.

Couple of his lines:

"Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game."

"An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one."

And my all time favourite, the entire chapter on the English and Sex read:

"Many continentals have a sex life. The English have hot water bottles."

In the follow up book, the chapter on the English and Sex read (something like):

"Many things have changed: continentals still have sex lives. The English now have electric blankets"
 
Kelmar said:
Yikes! Decline the offer and say it's not acceptable and tell them why. They, like any company, are trying to get away with as much money as possible in their pockets.

... wish I had known that was an option when I was younger and my brother totaled my restored classic car. :/
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Thanks for the support guys ;)




SiempreTuna said:
Absolutely - do NOT accept the offer: the insurance company is trying it on :mad:. Write them back - if you can afford it, have a lawyer write the letter for you.

Years ago, some eejit lost control of his car when speeding down my street, hit a car parked in front of mine shunting it into mine, then he span off and demolished the garden wall. I wasn't even in the country at the time - nice news to greet me when I got home.

Couple of weeks later, the eejit's insurance company - also eejits - wrote to me demanding payment for the damage to the eejits car and the car that he shunted into mine because - according to them - the accident had been my fault! :eek:

Needless to say, I demurred .. :D
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Dngrsone said:
How dare you park your car where it could be hit by random crashers-by? :rolleyes:

UEFI is grinding my gears something awful right now...Secure Boot only means Microsoft wins... for the moment. I (and Linux) will prevail!

Also, what is with my computer continually lapsing to zulu time? I am in the Pacific zone, not freakin' Greenwich!
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Thanks for the support guys ;)

Got to the bottom of it. The twisted insurance company for the trucker was trying to apply the damage to my collision insurance through MY insurance company.. No thank you.

I had a lawyer write a nice letter, heard from them immediately. Their adjustor will be out in the morning. A more sensible offer should be eminent.
they are required by law to offer me an amount of money equal to fair market value for my car or an equal replacement ;)
 
Im gettin sick n tired of the endless repeats of american dad and family guy. Theyre the only thing on at this time of night when youve watched the news headlines on russia today, bbc24 and aljazeera TWICE :banghead:
 
You're watching television... there's your problem.

The internet is much more entertaining... try source-fed; five videos a day totaling less than twenty minutes with news for nerds.
 
Baseball on the Roku! The first movie I bought and enjoyed was 42. But I have read biographies and histories of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the movie was almost spot on.
 
Dngrsone said:
You're watching television... there's your problem.

The internet is much more entertaining... try source-fed; five videos a day totaling less than twenty minutes with news for nerds.
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Lol trust me mate im CONSTANTLY online even while watchin tv my phone is right beside me. Im particularly enamoured with google+ lately. Theres a wealth of genius, beauty, rubbish and down right troll-bait on there to keep me entertained for hours on end. Love it :) i still want good stuff on tv in the background though. Ive always been a greedy greedy little man :)
 
Close talkers.
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Americans drive on the right side of the road... Europeans drive on the left side... or, as we arrogant Americans say, the wrong side. :p
 
k...I tuned out after about 6 seconds...:D:D:D

kidding but...not entirely:)


but it makes more sense to me to have control over something that is on your dominate side..the vast majority of people are right sided dominant..therefor naturally you would feel more secure and confident utilizing and using the right dominance side as a guide...
but there isn't anything special or superior to being right dominant...it;s just the majority of the population as a whole is right sided ...so...majority rules ...so to speak
 
The middle of the road is where the "dead skunk" is. (That was a real song)

Some of us have one side dominant for one thing and the other side for another.
Both kid and I are right handed. We skated like left handers. When she took power skating classes, she went with the lefties.
 
No matter how you want to spell Lao Tze's name, he did not write 1/10,000th of what is being hung on him by the internet and the new age press.

Most of what's claimed is diametrically opposed to what he's actually written.

Although I can confirm that evidently, Lao Tsu and I were the last people here to grow up diagramming sentences.

After all, he did say that serenity comes from good sentence structure, as befits the man walking without great burdens.
 
EarlyMon said:
No matter how you want to spell Lao Tze's name, he did not write 1/10,000th of what is being hung on him by the internet and the new age press.

Most of what's claimed is diametrically opposed to what he's actually written.

Although I can confirm that evidently, Lao Tsu and I were the last people here to grow up diagramming sentences.

After all, he did say that serenity comes from good sentence structure, as befits the man walking without great burdens.
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I diagrammed sentences. I remember when they dumbed down classes to get kids to learn grammar.

Doesn't matter which side of the road you drive on as long as you stay on it. You are not entitled to all the lanes for your convenience.

The Vulcan and another car almost sideswiped yesterday. Both were avoiding not-quite-potholes and manhole covers.
 
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