Lotta people are insane.

ErickC wrote: Sat Sep 24, 2022 1:54 am

ErikG wrote: Thu Sep 22, 2022 6:03 pm What's the most tactful way to negotiate requesting a pre-purchase inspection for a used car?

I'd emphasize that it's for everyone's protection - which is the truth. A good inspection protects the buyer from buying a lemon and the seller from accusations post-sale.

Quick follow up:

Met the seller at a reputable shop for the inspection. Mechanic found a few issues, nothing too major, but seller got snippy with the mechanic.

Later that day I get an email from seller stating the inspection was BS and attachments of receipts of recent work done "proving" that the mechanic was full of shit. Among other things he claimed that mechanic's assessment of the brakes was a result of him beating the shit out of the car during a test drive.

I responded that it was a fair third party assessment and I would need the issues resolved before a sale or repair costs factored into selling price, and hey, best of luck.

Got an unhinged email from seller next day (today) claiming that I didn't know the mechanic personally so the whole thing was suspect, and wild speculations that the mechanic damaged his car during the test drive and how he hoped the shop would rip me off in the future. And some other hilarious shit.

TL;DR: Get an inspection, folks. It helps weed out the whack jobs.

After Tortoise canceled last night due to covid as I was sat there with my pizza and cider, I really hope Afghan Whigs goes forward tonight.

ErikG wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 5:28 pmTL;DR: Get an inspection, folks. It helps weed out the whack jobs.

Great story, thanks for the morning laugh.

Inspired by the Stewart Lee bit from the other thread:

Do British people find a broad, cartoonish American accent funny the way Americans do with similarly ham fisted impersonations of British accents?

Fuuuuuuuuck HO scale is huge!

So I have decided that my train-obsessed nephew is old enough for his first real model train when Super Winter Holiday 2022(TM) comes around. I've started buying rolling stock piecemeal, I found some good cars for cheap at a local antique store (Atlas Master, Intermountain, and Walthers, for those of you who care about such things - $10-15 a car is a fucking steal for those) a couple weeks ago, and I got paid this week, so I went up to Scale Model Supplies (my favourite hobby shop) to see what kind of locomotives they had. I ended up grabbing a Kato one for fairly cheap - Jesus, it's a fucking brick! I bet if I built a big long railroad outdoors I could haul a good 50 cars with it, it's that heavy. My model trains are all N-scale, so it's been kind of interesting to handle HO scale trains again (which I haven't had since I was a kid).

On my next paycheque, I'm going to get him some track and a matching caboose for his locomotive.

It's amazing how much misconception, delusion, paranoia and dead-end speculation can be cured with a basic knowledge of statistics.

In the future, animals will continue to develop. I don't believe that men alone are capable of having two hands. Can't horses, cows, sheep evolve? Can only monkeys evolve? And can it be, moreover, that among all the monkeys, only one species can evolve, and all the others are incapable of evolving? In a million years, ten million years, will horses, cows and sheep still be the same as those today? I think they will continue to change. Horses, cows, sheep and insects will all change.

- Mao Zedong or Donald Trump?

Wondering if someone is going to start a "Hey FM eephus" thread.

losthighway wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 8:15 pm Inspired by the Stewart Lee bit from the other thread:

Do British people find a broad, cartoonish American accent funny the way Americans do with similarly ham fisted impersonations of British accents?

In general I would say everybody enjoys doing the comedy American. But Stewart Lee is a bit of a special case, his impressions (since he's started doing them) have tended to be offensively bad on purpose.