Ace-Garageguy

Fools and their money are often parted by internet scams.

Cars respond to logic, people not so much.

Circles and squares and triangles have specific, easily identifiable attributes.

Low standards everywhere today, and it's just the way it is. But before anything gets fixed, somebody has to acknowledge that it's broken. Driving a car with the engine clattering because there's no oil in it, because there's a small oil leak that nobody ever cared enough to fix, and nobody bothered to add oil as it dripped out because the car always got us there up 'til now, ultimately results in a very large BANG...and the engine stops permanently.

That's nothing. Read this post by Superdan, one of our moderators. The USPS isn't the only shipper who's a little, let's say, "logistically challenged". QUOTE: "I have 32 brand new 2025 Ford E-450 cutaway now in transit to me. Should be here next week. These are all sold, and customer is super excited because their previous dealer couldn't get them any chassis over the past couple of years. However, these are supposed to be dropshipped to a body build in New Paris, Indiana. Even though I received confirmation that the vehicles would be dropshipped at the vendor, all 32 of these units are coming directly here instead. Ford's response? Ooopsie. Our bad. Nothing we can do to help. So now we need to ship 32 of these things back down to Indiana." So...if Dan's dealership gets stuck with the transportation cost to correct Ford's "oopsie", I imagine that will pretty well wipe out most of the profit on the deal. I'm impressed.

"Head cheese" must be the most unappetizing name for a lunchmeat, ever.

Now life will forever be "like a day without sunshine".

I always have to laugh when people who don't experience this kind of stuff on a regular basis want to say it isn't happening, or it's the weather, or it's some arcane effect of sophisticated "logistics" that mere mortals like me are too dimwitted to understand...like trying to keep every truck "full", no matter how far out of the way a package goes to accomplish that goal. Whatever. But the tracking allows those of us who have hundreds of dollars worth of paid for goods in transit at any given time to at least see where a shipment WAS when it went off the radar. Last month I had two shipments that took over two weeks to get here from one state away, with no inclement weather between...and one of them bounced around between zipcodes in THIS state for several days...going back and forth between two post offices 5 times for no apparent reason.

Scratchbuild one? The body is mostly flat panels, kinda like this...

Rule number one is that the rules defining a "sentence" aren't universally understood.

Rush to get your dictionaries, boys and girls.

The problems have been worsening for years. Everywhere. My business is dependent on multiple deliveries every week, and has been for almost a decade. Service is deteriorating...and anyone who regularly tracks their shipments can see bizarre, nonsensical routing constantly.

"Earth", besides being the name of our home-planet, means "electrical ground" in British English, and it can also mean "dirt".

"Ago" usually follows other words, because it's not courageous enough to be first in a sentence.

I have recurring issues with deliveries, similar to what's described above. Mine have been ongoing for some time, are sporadic, but are worse just recently. Complex systems can be failure-prone. The more complex the system, the more ways it can fail, and endless tinkering with something that works just fine by adding multiple layers of additional, often unnecessary complication "to make it better" rarely has a totally positive outcome. Incompetence or laziness on the part of workers in any complex field, whether it be aircraft assembly and maintenance, software development, or package delivery, increases the likelihood of failure of a system at some level.

Yet again, I have multiple shipments coming that have apparently gone off the rails somewhere.

Humid is as humid does.

Program the plebs to ridicule and scoff at anything that's not program-approved thought or opinion.

See Daddyfink's post above... "Can also be assembled into the North American spec Datsun 240Z" IF that means what it says, it's 2 variable-venturi Zenith-Stromberg or Hitachi carbs, LHD, steel wheels, and hubcaps.

https://patganahl.com/2022/03/21/models-from-the-50s/

Wait...WHAT??? I thought all those mirrors were to check your toupee or makeup. You mean you're s'posed to use 'em while you drive????

Looks like quality Is still Job One. And I thought I had to compensate for idiots...

Eyem bee needin a feww ah deeze.

Now that the sum of human knowledge is instantly accessible from a pocket-sized device, many believe it's not necessary to actually know anything anymore, and lotsa folks really get with the program.

Ask Google a question and you'll get 1000 stupid answers.