Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by humfrz

I'd call it an SUV, however, ask your wife what she calls it -


humfrz

Well, she hasn't seen it yet, but my guess is she'll call it "too big" and refuse to drive it after trying a 3-point turn here in the yard and discovering there's no back-up camera, no parking sensors and a rear-view mirror only showing a distant sliver of daylight.

[MuseChaser]

Originally Posted by Sarlacc

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And here's the question. This being a 5-door 2-seater, would you call it a truck, an SUV or a van? Please enlighten a confused foreigner :-)

According to my own personal snap judgements and prejudices and nothing else, the following are facts... ..


The "Sport" part of "Sport Utility Vehicle" - Nope. The "perky bus" handling kills that.


"Van" - well, if all of the back seats are out and it's now an open cargo area, maybe yes. If you can put a 4x8' sheet back there, then definitely yes.



"Truck" - Body-on-frame? Then yes. Unibody? No.



I'd go with "UTVV" - "Utility Truck Van Vehicle"

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Shit.

Yep, it's a true sports car - you're NOT supposed to be drinking in it. Both eyes on the road, both hands on the wheel.

Now, that you have published that you installed a drink holder, your insurance company will find out and your insurance rates will skyrocket -


humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Sarlacc

Well, she hasn't seen it yet, but my guess is she'll call it "too big" and refuse to drive it after trying a 3-point turn here in the yard and discovering there's no back-up camera, no parking sensors and a rear-view mirror only showing a distant sliver of daylight.

Easy fix.


humfrz

[bcj]

Originally Posted by Sarlacc

And here's the question. This being a 5-door 2-seater, would you call it a truck, an SUV or a van? Please enlighten a confused foreigner :-)

It's a Utility Vehicle that you can scratch the heck out of with skis, snowshoes and chain saws.
Splash some two stroke gas around in the back so it doesn't smell so diesel-y.

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I've had an OLFA Craft Knife - L for ages.
Click the picture. $3.71 and it's JDM YO!
Not a flick knife, but does what it says on the box.

Also inherited a Stanley exactly as pictured previously. Not broke yet.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Didn't say I WAS sick. Mental health day. I'm going to go treat myself to breakfast.

That raw fish was tasty.

You said that you called in SICK. You should have stuck with that. Now that your employer knows it's a mental health day, they will have to do a mental health evaluation on you which will most likely direct them to give you a medical early retirement, at a drastically reduced pension -

However, you will still be able to retire to a place in Montana -


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by bcj

It's a Utility Vehicle that you can scratch the heck out of with skis, snowshoes and chain saws.
Splash some two stroke gas around in the back so it doesn't smell so diesel-y.

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I've had an OLFA Craft Knife - L for ages.
Click the picture. $3.71 and it's JDM YO!
Not a flick knife, but does what it says on the box.

Also inherited a Stanley exactly as pictured previously. Not broke yet.

Now THAT is a utility knife!
People were headed up the knife scale so quickly that I was afraid of where it would end.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

You said that you called in SICK. You should have stuck with that. Now that your employer knows it's a mental health day, they will have to do a mental health evaluation on you which will most likely direct them to give you a medical early retirement, at a drastically reduced pension -

However, you will still be able to retire to a place in Montana -


humfrz

I have been trying to get HR to do that for years now. They say I am crazy if I think I can get out that easy.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

According to my own personal snap judgements and prejudices and nothing else, the following are facts... ..


The "Sport" part of "Sport Utility Vehicle" - Nope. The "perky bus" handling kills that.


"Van" - well, if all of the back seats are out and it's now an open cargo area, maybe yes. If you can put a 4x8' sheet back there, then definitely yes.



"Truck" - Body-on-frame? Then yes. Unibody? No.



I'd go with "UTVV" - "Utility Truck Van Vehicle"

Now you went and did it - all the automobile manufactures will now have to come out with that line -


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Now you went and did it - all the automobile manufactures will now have to come out with that line -


humfrz

Well if it is a new Subaru it will have to be a PZEUTTV

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I have been trying to get HR to do that for years now. They say I am crazy if I think I can get out that easy.

OK, as an indicator - what do you see here - ??





humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Well if it is a new Subaru it will have to be a PZEUTTV

How in the hell can they have "partial zero emissions" -


humfrz

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

It is not cute.

Don't you have an engine to rebuild?

It's on its way back together. The valve lash was unbelievably sloppy on one of the intake valves. I knew that my mom spent a few thousand dollars on work a few years ago but she didn't know the details. I can see that the heads had been pulled and had noted the absence of a cold-engine piston slap that I had mentioned to my parents years earlier.

Armed with those observations I decided to stop at valve adjustment. Everything else looks clean.

Yeah, it's adorable.

[ScoobsMcGee]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I have been trying to get HR to do that for years now. They say I am crazy if I think I can get out that easy.

Damnit, now I'm whistling the intro.