Substitute GOAT Topic for Friday March 2
9(Covering for our GOAT @kittysprinkles who is dealing with an in-house flood, the cleanup, the mess, the expense, the drying-out, the reconstruction, the stress, the disappointed teenager, and I think, also, dealing with the interrupted together time with new spouse?)
(Much thx to @mfladd for taking over yesterday.)
What’s so incredibly annoying and you’d like to scream about it or tell someone off, but you never ever will? (Giphys are good here.)
In my life, this morning, I’m gassing up at fav station. Which has many diesel pumps.
I don’t mind the vehicles with louder (within reason) engines.
I do mind the owners of some vehicles with loud engines who make a point of demonstrating for 15 min at a time exactly how loud their vehicle engines are. Deliberately cranking it up to where closed windows or (for passengers) sealed headphones or sealed earbuds don’t help. It’s still a painful level of loud.
The owners of said vehicles appear to enjoy tormenting people and showing off.
I am quietly cursing them. Even tho I don’t wish them a fiery death. (Some locals aren’t so restrained).
/giphy car on fire
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Annoying?
When I have to deal with customers that have terrible breath or they bathed in musky perfume/cologne.
There’s been several occasions that it’s so bad, I will cover my mouth and nose when helping them, otherwise I might vomit. I try to hold my fingers in a way that makes me look like I’m contemplating.
I was at a doctor’s office recently and it was so bad, I pulled my shirt up over my face. I didn’t give a fuck if I offended anyone, their perfume offended me from across the waiting room. I would never verbally say anything unless I know them personally, or the person asked me.
@RiotDemon
I have been known to move away from someone and murmur about “allergies”.
But that doesn’t work when they are the customer.
/giphy “too much perfume”
@f00l that gif… such an assault, much like terrible perfume.
Every crazy a**hole on the road this morning trying to kill me…wtf…am I invisible in my red car on this bright sunny morning??? Or is it small enough you think “meh…how much damage are we really talking?”
@amehzinggrace
cops tell me red cars are like red shirts
@f00l I thought you knew that a loud truck is redneck compensation.
The louder the truck, the smaller… well,
/image now you know
@2many2no I liked the coochie monster better, lol
@2many2no
The offenders are usually 'rods and Harley’s; most trucks I’m around are normal work trucks.
And they are a small minority of their kind. Most who are into those vehicles don’t need to overcompensate for anything.
@2many2no @f00l I think the confusion came from the “…many diesel pumps” line in your original post.
I presume that was a reference to your use of diesel, ergo wanting a station with lots of said pumps. (Or I could be totally blowing smoke…)
@2many2no @chienfou
It’s just a big service station that services a wider than usual set of clientele. Apologies for questionable phrasing.
@2many2no @f00l …and mine for assuming (aka making an ass out of u & me…)
Lots and lots of Harleys here with unbaffled exhausts. It’s annoying AF to be stuck next to one in traffic as the rider sits at a traffic light gunning the engine (presumably so it doesn’t stall), waiting for the light to change so they can blast away in a thunderous cloud of fumes and fury… only to be right next to me a couple blocks later at the next intersection.
There must be something wrong with my Yamaha because I can sit there idling at a stoplight all day without having to gun the engine once.
I’m a hotrodder, through and through. If you cut me, do I not bleed 10W-40? I appreciate the sights, the sounds, the smells of a well tuned engine. One which broadcasts power and torque with every note of the exhaust. But for the love of Irk, be respectful! There’s nothing humorous or manly about blasting your motor into the open window of some poor schlub stuck in traffic next to you!
@ruouttaurmind
^this.
@ruouttaurmind Their market is dying.
https://jalopnik.com/young-people-arent-saving-harley-davidson-1797052213
@narfcake Harley and the HD clones enjoyed a boom resurgence and growing popularity with the mainstream during the 1990s through maybe mid-2000s.
Every engineer, doctor and accountant I know was a weekend rider, spending tens of thousands on custom bikes and accessories. But the last ten years or so that seems to be waning. Not that HD has gone back to the underworld of the one percenters (outlaw bikers) but it’s certainly less common to have swarms of schoolteachers ride up on a pack of scooters. The town where my office is located is a mecca for both types of bikers and I see first hand on a daily basis the decline of mainstream demographic.
@narfcake @ruouttaurmind With the cost of a new bike being north of 20K (sometimes way north) it’s no surprise. Even the used ‘rice-burners’ are out of my price range for the fun factor involved. Plus even when I was riding (years ago) it seemed like 90% of the drivers on the road had only one intention… killing me! Now with everyone on their cell phone, watching in dash videos etc. I can’t even imagine…
@narfcake maybe their market is stopped at a red light and they didn’t gun it. Got to have the idle adjusted too low so it has that cool lope, y’know.
@ruouttaurmind I personally blame the increase of car drivers on cell phones and otherwise distracted for the decline of the motorcycle market. Of course that’s not Harley specifically, which has its own challenges. But a distracted horse’s ass in a Tahoe is the reason I have a scraped up M109R in the garage, a plate in my wrist, and a shoulder that’s still not right, and decided that it might not be worth the risk anymore.
Edit: looks like @chienfou types faster than me.
@ruouttaurmind The other companies didn’t garner the image of H-D, though – which is good, as they didn’t get the negative connotation of being “a loud badass” either. Folks bought their bikes because of the product – and these are the folks that H-D will have an extremely hard time of getting a sale out of.
H-D’s dealer practices hasn’t helped either.
Or their product, which are big, heavy, hard to handle, old tech, high operating costs, and to top it off - they can only say “assembled in America” because so many (more than half?) of their parts are sourced from other countries.
@djslack 2 great minds think alike!
@djslack @narfcake @ruouttaurmind BTW, that’s partially the reason I put up the bikes and went with convertibles for a while. Wind in hair (when I still had some), VS less maniacs trying to kill me, plus as a bonus, you can put the top up when it rains.
@narfcake I was once told by a Harley dealer employee H-D stands for Hundred Dollars because that’s what anything costs minimum when you take it to the dealer.
He was also one of the people to have been over 200mph on a Harley (well, a Buell).
@djslack Buell - a market H-D didn’t understand, so they bought them … and killed them.
(Breakfast octopus, anyone?)
@narfcake what a perfect (and, given the forum, apropos) reference!.
I think the reason for the decline of HD and motorcycles generally is because it is just soo much easier to livestream or watch netflix while driving a car than a bike.
Maybe if they designed bikes for the fairer gender?
@mike808 the chrome should be shiny enough on its own.
Whoa goat substitute what a concept.
@cranky1950
Your turn soon.
@f00l nuh uh had my turn . It was huge and I was by far the goat goat.
Everyone says so. So I humbly step aside so others can have and enjoy this great honor.
@cranky1950
All the substitute Goats for @kittysprinkles have also already been Goats. In fact, we’ve all already been incredibly great Goats.
Your turn soon, Fucker.
/giphy Soon
If you wanna just spend your turn repeating a big fat:
Then I guess you can.
We’ll all prob just figure you’re showing off the range of your vocabulary.
I promise, we will be impressed!
/giphy “so impressed!”
/giphy goat replacement therapy
