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Does a CTRL-SHIFT-T not remember anything you'd typed in?
Nah, that works if you've hit back and then forward, in which case it saves. But if you re-open the tab then it just looks like you've hit 'Create New Thread'Originally Posted by Ian
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Ate some spicy crisps. Now I'm feeling like shit.
Haven't farted this much in ages.
I'm too old for junk food.
Onion repeats on me these days, which is shit, because I have it in pretty much everything.
Even cooked? Raw onion can be brutal.
Less so, but yeah. If cheese ever turns on me I may as well pitch myself off something tall.
Keep a supply of the ranitidine tablets Tesco sell and you'll be safe.
For the love of fucking God...
You don't need to leave the shit on speaker. Pick up the fucking phone. You're on hold. It's a shared office.
Pastry for me, gives me fucking horrible indigestion and heartburn. No more pork pies or sausage rolls fml
Taps in public toilets and the like that require you to keep the thing pressed down for water to come out. At least give me a few seconds.
I need to vent somewhere
So after leaving the Orlando City game a few weeks back I hit a slick bit of water in the rain and curbed the fuck out of my left front tire.
Fuck my life, right? Manage to get it home and then to the dealership the next day.
They take a look, buddy calls me, hey man.. gonna be $1200 or so to fix it.
Fuck my life! I was just finally saving up some money. Oh well, gotta have a car. Sure, go ahead, fix the part.
Calls me back again, awww shit we did the lazer point triple XL inspection and actually the back axle is a bit fucked too!
Now it's gonna be $3200 to fix!
FUCK MY LIFE. That's basically my entire savings to this point. Fine. Need a car.
Go, pay for the fucking thing. "It's perfect now!" Oh, word! Great!
So I'm driving and i hear this squeaky noise like a nest of fucking rats has moved in.
Wow, I think to myself, I guess that's just the way it's going to sound now. Still, I'll take it to get it looked at.
Then, as I'm braking at a red light, CLICK CLICK CLICK like the fucking brake rotor is coming off or some shit.
Whaaaat the fuuuuuuuuuuuck?
So I take the car back in today. Buddy tried to tell me oh it's gonna be another $320 to fix. I said hold on, I just paid you $3200, you said it was perfect, but you didn't see the tire hub "bouncing around" when you test drove it?
I said I tell you what let me call you back. I'm a notoriously quick hot head and I felt myself getting too hyped up.
So I go online, find the service manager's name, call them back and ask to speak to buddy. Long story short, "oh he's not in the office" I said okay here's my number have him call me back.
This fucking pussy has the service advisor call me back instead of calling himself... Guy tells me "oh okay, my manager said we'll write off the labor if you'll just pay for the part." Went from $320 to $120. Mind you how fucking outrageous is it that I have to pay your labor.
I said look man, you've been nothing but helpful to me, don't think it has anything to do with you. He said oh I know trust me.
But what the fuck kinda shit is this man. You sent me out with a "perfect" car but you didn't see the fucking tire hub "bouncing around" in the fucking wheel? Fuck off, you fucking cunts.
tl;dr: My car got a boo-boo. It was one price to fix it, then another price. Paid the astronomical amount. Still fucked up. Wanted me to pay for their fuck up. I said lolz manager please. Manager's a pussy, didn't call me back directly. They're gonna eat the cost of labor (more than half the price of the actual part). Fine, I guess.
You probably paid their labour costs six times over with what they've shafted out of you on the original repair.
What did they actually do for $3200?
Shaft him.
I can't even make a joke about $3200 being about 50p. Thanks, Brexit.
American cars are made of old tin cans and kinder egg plastic though so $3200 should buy you about eight of them.
You'd fucking imagine. Hold on I have the original receipt in my pocket.
Let's see then:
Alignment: 89.95
"History Fee" (what in the fuck): 1.50
Shop Supplies: 25.00
Arm assembly: 90.00
Rod assembly: 30.07
Nut: 1.06
Link: 21.43
Nut: 1.76
Rotor assembly: 60.00
Brake kit: 83.00
Valve kit: 15.00
Wheel assembly: 180.00
Shock absorber: 108.88
Nut: .50
Cross Member: 883.92
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Parts: 1636.56
Labor: 1563.44
"replace left front lower control arm, tie rod, sway bar link, rear cross member"
fuck everything.
Mind you, $1563.44 over a 40 hour week is damn near $40 a fucking hour. It's literally highway robbery.
How does one nut cost 70 cents more than the other. What kinda fucking world is this man?
Six times over might have been on the low end.
You should have gone somewhere else.
How much is a car in America? It has to be cheaper to buy a new one.
Lol
Top Gear picked up three for about eight hundred dollars. They were bangers, but if 'oh well, gotta have a car' is the justification then a banger will do.
Fucking hell, what a parade of turgid glop that page is. If those are the alternative you did exactly the right thing.
Also cars here don't have an MOT. You can drive until it literally stops working unhindered.
John's right. They'll run but maybe forever or just for three months. Double what he paid and you can get something more than serviceable though.
But Bruh? Didn't someone teach you to never go to the dealer unless you are under warranty and never ever pay what they ask.
It's like looking down the used cars list on Gran Turismo 2. There's even the obligatory bright red Del Sol.
I'll take the Hyundai Accent that's been averaging fifty thousand miles a year please.
The Del Sol is the highlight, the rest look like they've been partially melted.
I paid $1800 for mine when I arrived in the US. Lasted me ten years.
That's what I did.
I can probably fix it for $500 or so, but I can't be arsed.
I miss decent cars but I don't miss car ownership. Robbery.
They do end up costing a bloody fortune. Bike + the occasional car share rental has turned out to be much, much cheaper.
Yes, I should have said they will all run forever but how much and how often will you have to pay. People pay too much on cars though. $5,000 and at most you are paying for oil / tire changes. Dealerships screw you because most people have a loan they can't walk from.
Shit you not my dad was a mechanic at a dealership and he always told me to use the dealer because of the genuine parts blah blah blah.
But he's a fucking dickhead whom I haven't spoken to for 5+ years so maybe it's time to move on to new advice.
Also, the thing about my current is I still owe money on it so it's not like I can just bin it off and try again.
It's a 2014 but has been really good to me since I bought it in all fairness.
I bet it was him who fixed it.
Lmao probably.
After all the talk, my fucking car is leaking fucking oil.
It's a week of different sports days in work.
If you have kids and go to their sports day, sit/standwhere the school has provided seating.
Do not decide to sit on the other side from everyone else or behind the start of finish like and most of all DO NOT come over to your kid. If they look thirsty it's their own fault for forgetting to bring a drink out, they will have been told to several times and your kids just an idiot. Buy them a lolly/ice cream/ sweets AFTER SCHOOL! Not between races.
Grrr!!
The summer term is the worst!
Do you teach in China? Haven't they given up on sport concentration camps since Beijing came and went?
Charity singles being covers of an existing song. Bridge Over Troubled Water for the Grenfell lot. Seriously. Simon Cowell is worthless.
Having to organise sports day.
So my broadband has slowed to 0.5Mb today. It's ridiculous to try and use, and basically means I can't work. I have Virgin coming out Monday morning, but it basically means there's no internet this weekend
I've got two of those little tiny bug cunts in my screen.
Didn't realise the Ukrainian was a twin.
Checked into a Ryanair flight today. Two of us on the same booking. It's given us seats ten aisles apart. Apparently you have to pay for the privilege now. Fuck them.
Ten aisles? How fucking big is this plane?
lol
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