the WTH thread is back!

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by durok

Looks like squid hazing rituals gone wrong...

(Jato - clear out a couple PMs from yer box - I couldn't respond to yer last message!)

Sorry, I replied to you.


This is what happens when idiots get cars. He reportedly said he was trying to refill his tire with air and correct a groove in the sidewall caused by driving with low pressure.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cul...plosion-video/

[motakitty]

Just a little more air will fix it.

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[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by motakitty

Just a little more air will fix it.

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Yep! In the end it's another Darwinism fail.

What kind of men are people raising if they can't even fill a tire with air?

[skinnyj]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

Yep! In the end it's another Darwinism fail.

What kind of men are people raising if they can't even fill a tire with air?

It's even stranger, as just about every air machine I run across allows you to preset the target PSI and shuts down at that number (and rips you off to the tune of $1.50). I haven't tried it, but I'm also willing to bet you can't set those machines to insane PSI levels for liability reasons.

[HyperMark]

Originally Posted by skinnyj

...(and rips you off to the tune of $1.50).....

That's a WTH itself. You have to pay for air?
Free at every servo(service station) here.

[high plains drifter]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

What kind of men are people raising if they can't even fill a tire with air?

PSI = Pumpkin Spice Intensity

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by skinnyj

It's even stranger, as just about every air machine I run across allows you to preset the target PSI and shuts down at that number (and rips you off to the tune of $1.50). I haven't tried it, but I'm also willing to bet you can't set those machines to insane PSI levels for liability reasons.

Yeah air can be very dangerous and usually there are safety measures to prevent idiots from hurting themselves and to prevent system failures.

I'm guessing this snowflake is going to sue the service station for making his ears ring.

Originally Posted by HyperMark

That's a WTH itself. You have to pay for air?
Free at every servo(service station) here.

At most places, yes, you do have to pay for air here in the US where I live. We don't really have service stations anymore though. Most garages have gotten rid of their gas pumps. You have repair garages and gas pumps are at convenience stores...

Originally Posted by high plains drifter

PSI = Pumpkin Spice Intensity

that's great!

[motakitty]

In California at least you get free air when you buy gas

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[hpiguy]

Originally Posted by motakitty

In California at least you get free air when you buy gas

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You pay for that air by having to live in Commiefornia.

[HumboldtEF]

Originally Posted by skinnyj

It's even stranger, as just about every air machine I run across allows you to preset the target PSI and shuts down at that number (and rips you off to the tune of $1.50). I haven't tried it, but I'm also willing to bet you can't set those machines to insane PSI levels for liability reasons.

Originally Posted by HyperMark

That's a WTH itself. You have to pay for air?
Free at every servo(service station) here.

Whats even worse (for me) is our business leases from a gas station across the way, water lines arent metered properly and WE pay for the water service (the actual city water bill) that they charge their customers to access

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by motakitty

In California at least you get free air when you buy gas

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Nothing is free in California...not even freedom.

Hell, you can't even let your car idle with the possibility of getting arrested.

California Man Arrested For Leaving His Car Idling in Parking Lot - The Drive

[2mtech]

Originally Posted by motakitty

In California at least you get free air when you buy gas

That's because the air quality makes them feel guilty to charge for it.

Originally Posted by HumboldtEF

Whats even worse (for me) is our business leases from a gas station across the way, water lines arent metered properly and WE pay for the water service (the actual city water bill) that they charge their customers to access

That sucks!

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

Nothing is free in California...not even freedom.

Hell, you can't even let your car idle with the possibility of getting arrested.

What do plastic straws cost in Cali now?

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by 2mtech

What do plastic straws cost in Cali now?

Aren't those illegal as well?

A couple weeks ago I ate at a restaurant that used paper straws. Nothing like eating paper while you drink Coke. The pulp might be fine in orange juice (I like mine pulp free), but not in Coke. Modern day hippies are ruining the world!

Now instead of BYOB it's BYOS.

[2mtech]

We used to just make fun of California for such things, but it's so much closer now. Chapel Hill has decided that scooters are suddenly a crisis and are trying to determine how to regulate them, or ban them altogether.

WTH? It's getting harder to remember a country where we rode bicycles without helmets and smoked in restaurants.

[skinnyj]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

Yeah air can be very dangerous...

Well... Air can be dangerous, or cause other dangers, at the least.

I was helping a former employer change tires on one of his oil trucks. He explained to me why, after setting the tire and the lock ring, you inflate the tire in a safety cage. He went on to explain that, if the bead fails and the ring blows off the wheel, chances are you aren't going to live to tell about it, as that ring's first destination will likely be your skull.

Then again, we are talking about 140 psi as opposed to 32.

[skinnyj]

Originally Posted by 2mtech

...and smoked in restaurants.

That change was very much for the better. And I used to be a two-pack-a-day smoker...

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by 2mtech

We used to just make fun of California for such things, but it's so much closer now. Chapel Hill has decided that scooters are suddenly a crisis and are trying to determine how to regulate them, or ban them altogether.

WTH? It's getting harder to remember a country where we rode bicycles without helmets and smoked in restaurants.

I don't know about where you live, but here the bad changes happen when the city liberals move into the country.

We rode in the back of pickup trucks without seat belts, Jeeps without seat belts, and our toys were metal AND they had sharp edge. Oh how did we all survive the horrors?

Oh and straws are banned in California unless you ask for them.

https://www.businessinsider.com/cali...to-know-2018-9

Originally Posted by skinnyj

Well... Air can be dangerous, or cause other dangers, at the least.

I was helping a former employer change tires on one of his oil trucks. He explained to me why, after setting the tire and the lock ring, you inflate the tire in a safety cage. He went on to explain that, if the bead fails and the ring blows off the wheel, chances are you aren't going to live to tell about it, as that ring's first destination will likely be your skull.

Then again, we are talking about 140 psi as opposed to 32.

Yes, there are lots of videos on YouTube of tires, including semi tires, wreaking havoc.

[2mtech]

Originally Posted by skinnyj

That change was very much for the better. And I used to be a two-pack-a-day smoker...

Me too. Not saying it was a bad change, just that that's where the "I don't so you can't either because it offends me" psychobabble started.

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

I don't know about where you live, but here the bad changes happen when the city liberals move into the country.

It's a big joke here that no one who lives in Raleigh or Charlotte is from NC, all from somewhere else...and yes, brought the things they leaving behind with them. Yay.

We rode in the back of pickup trucks without seat belts, Jeeps without seat belts, and our toys were metal AND they had sharp edge. Oh how did we all survive the horrors?

To be sure, we should have all been dead many times over. To think about the sheer fact that I logged from age 14 to 17, let alone without eye or ear protection or a faceshield running a saw...travesty!

[STANG KILLA SS]

Originally Posted by 2mtech

We used to just make fun of California for such things, but it's so much closer now. Chapel Hill has decided that scooters are suddenly a crisis and are trying to determine how to regulate them, or ban them altogether.

WTH? It's getting harder to remember a country where we rode bicycles without helmets and smoked in restaurants.

remember kids in the back of a pick up truck?

edit: dammit Jato Tree'd me!

[2mtech]

Originally Posted by STANG KILLA SS

remember kids in the back of a pick up truck?

Hell, yeah, Jato just nostalgia'd that too. All summer long, sitting up on the fenderwell!