What Irked You Today?

[Mark]

Years ago, I took my Dodge Dakota pickup in for new tires.  This was my '88 which I had until 2004, so this was way over twenty years ago.  Two wheel drive, V6/stick.  Nobody asked me if it was a stick, and it didn't occur to me to tell them.  Guy goes out to the truck to pull it in, gets in, sees three pedals and walks back in.  The girl working the counter was the only one working there that day who could drive a manual.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Googli's brainwashed little AI constantly spouting off dogma like this: 

• The myth of meritocracy. The emphasis on hard work as the primary driver of good luck can sometimes ignore the immense impact of systemic factors, inherent privilege, or inherited wealth. Focusing too much on individual effort can obscure the external forces that create and block opportunities for different people.

Edited Thursday at 05:37 PM by Ace-Garageguy

[NYLIBUD]

Having trick or treaters knocking at my door at 8 AM.Ru kidding me?And again my neighborhood is all of a sudden crawling with with the little tykes.🙄🧙🏻🎃Happy and safe Halloween to everybody.

Edited yesterday at 05:23 PM by NYLIBUD

[Ace-Garageguy]

Only thing irking me today is me...

[mk11]

On 10/30/2025 at 11:31 AM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Googli's brainwashed little AI constantly spouting off dogma like this: 

• The myth of meritocracy. The emphasis on hard work as the primary driver of good luck can sometimes ignore the immense impact of systemic factors, inherent privilege, or inherited wealth. Focusing too much on individual effort can obscure the external forces that create and block opportunities for different people.

... and now we're both irked    🤪

[Tim W. SoCal]

8 minutes ago, mk11 said:

The emphasis on hard work as the primary driver of good luck

How is meritocracy related to luck? This displays more Automated Idiocy, as far as I'm concerned...

[Ace-Garageguy]

25 minutes ago, Tim W. SoCal said:

How is meritocracy related to luck? 

I ran this through Googli's AI   "Good luck is 95% being in the right place at the right time, by working hard to get there."

And that PC excuse-making gibberish is what it vomited up.

[Russell C]

On 10/30/2025 at 2:22 AM, johnyrotten said:

...hopefully you figure out the emissions issue, those are great, fun cars to drive. 

Yes, they are! Perhaps one of those giant Detroit luxo-barges from the late 1970s would be a more soft pillow ride for the wide open expanses of travel across the American southwest, but I'm thinking if something like a U-Hauler's stray couch falls off their flatbed trailer suddenly onto the freeway, a sudden steering input in a barge would do little more than cause the barge to lean slightly sideways into the couch as you hit it, as opposed to my stiff suspension / quick ratio dinky car jinking right around it like it was an F1 chicane. If I had more money to afford another set of tires, I'd have way too much fun autocrossing this thing! But the guys in the paddock would be saying, "we really need to get a donation drive going for you, so you can put a new coat of paint on it...." 🤣